Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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[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.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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All men & women are created equal.
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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.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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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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