I shall not grow conservative with age.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI shall not grow conservative with age.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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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.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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