It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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…?
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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