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 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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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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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 decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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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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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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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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