The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTruth is the only safe ground to stand on.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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 more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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 memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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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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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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[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.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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