To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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