Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSocial science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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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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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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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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