Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONYou may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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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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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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