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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?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Health Myself Reason
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Development Inspirational Sacrifice
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Beginning Complete Cry Death Evil Woman
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Mom Role Sacrifice Wife Woman
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality History Man Oppression Past Struggle Woman
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Logic Lose
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Complete Smooth Surface
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Design Health Illustration Men Opportunity Possible Sacrifice Woman Work
In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Freedom Greatness Hope Ignorance Justice Noble Principle Religion Wrong
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Election History Nation Oneself Ourselves Reading
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Character Dignity Oneself Recognition