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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIt is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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[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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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