The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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