Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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All men & women are created equal.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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