[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 STANTONThe moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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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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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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