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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSurely 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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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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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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All men & 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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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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