Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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