Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhile 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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