The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOut of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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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.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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