To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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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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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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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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