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.
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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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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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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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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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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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