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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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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 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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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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.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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