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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOur ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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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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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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All men & women are created equal.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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