The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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