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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEvery truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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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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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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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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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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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