Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONA woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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 desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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All men & women are created equal.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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Out 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.
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