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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Beginning Complete Cry Death Evil Woman
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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Attitude History Marriage Men Past Religion
[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Home Mother Present Role Women
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Friendship Move See World
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Greatness Woman World
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 STANTON

Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Age Attitude Growth Myself
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Learning Safety Truth
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Age Forever Funny Life Young
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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