We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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All men & women are created equal.
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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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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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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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