I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhat 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?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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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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