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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quote - 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.

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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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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 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.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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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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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.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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