Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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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