All men & women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhen women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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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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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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