We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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