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.
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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All men & women are created equal.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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