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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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