Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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 best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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