My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman 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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Out 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.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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