When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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