A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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[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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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