We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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