Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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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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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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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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