You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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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 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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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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