Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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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.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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All men & women are created equal.
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