It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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