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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Man Oppression Slave Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Beginning Courage Fear Life Light Moments Opinion Ourselves Policy Silence Soul Strength Truth
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 STANTON

Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Ourselves Path Shadow Turn
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Development Need Reality Time
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World