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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.
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End Family God Human Togetherness Violence Wisdom
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Age Forever Funny Life Young
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
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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Daughter Father Men Right Suffering Worst
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Friendship Move See World
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Greatness Path Religious Struggle Woman
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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Burn Death Fantasy History Magic Victim Woman
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
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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Beginning Courage Fear Life Light Moments Opinion Ourselves Policy Silence Soul Strength Truth
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…?
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Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
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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Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Attention Human Important Knowledge Mom Preparation Professional
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Human Logic Lose
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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