All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWomanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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