All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIt is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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 best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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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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