The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSelf-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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