We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Eve 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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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