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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quote - The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Creation Equalty Evidence Hold Man Truth Woman
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
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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Alone Development Need Reality Time
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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Daughter Father Men Right Suffering Worst
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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Election History Nation Oneself Ourselves Reading
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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Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
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?
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Beginning Complete Cry Death Evil Woman
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Culture Judgement Oneself Quick Responsibility Service
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Health Myself Reason
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Feeling Proud Sex Woman Word
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Human Nature Oneself Possible Soul Spiritual Success
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Burn Death Fantasy History Magic Victim Woman
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
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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Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Development Inspirational Sacrifice
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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Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
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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Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality History Man Oppression Past Struggle Woman
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Consistency Human Men Try Woman
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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Flower Garden Knowledge Satisfaction Simplicity Taste
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Advantage Equality Government People Protection
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Happiness Human Life Right
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Learning Safety Truth
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Human Logic Lose
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.
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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex 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
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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