I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONStrike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The 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.
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