Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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The 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.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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