Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONCome, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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