Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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All men & women are created equal.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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