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 STANTONThe 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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