Elizabeth Cady Stanton on government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton77 quotes“Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.”
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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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton [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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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…?
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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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