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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSocial science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on 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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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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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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