Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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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.
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