When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONAmong the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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