Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSocial science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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