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.
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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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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