Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhen 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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