With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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?
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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