Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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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