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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONAll men & women are created equal.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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