Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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