The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONGod, 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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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.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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