The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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.
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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?
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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