Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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