All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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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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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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