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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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