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.
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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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