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 STANTONNothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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 heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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 shall not grow conservative with age.
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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.
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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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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON