Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEve 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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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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 Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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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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