The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSo long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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