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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quote - The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Happiness Human Life Right
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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Literature Myself Regard Woman
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Greatness Woman World
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Man Oppression Slave Woman
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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Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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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Friendship Move See World
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Equality Politics Respect
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 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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Age Attitude Growth Myself
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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