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?
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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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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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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