All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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 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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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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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