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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

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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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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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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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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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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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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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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