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 STANTONLove 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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