You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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