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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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 STANTON

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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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