Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSocial science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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