The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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…?
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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