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?
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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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