[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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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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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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