The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOut of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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