Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONA government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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?
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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