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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Health Myself Reason
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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Consistency Human Men Try Woman
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Attention Human Important Knowledge Mom Preparation Professional
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
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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Election History Nation Oneself Ourselves Reading
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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Advantage Equality Government People Protection
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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Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Culture Judgement Oneself Quick Responsibility Service
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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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Literature Myself Regard Woman
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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