We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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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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Strike 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.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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