The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWords cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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All men & women are created equal.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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