Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMen as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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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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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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