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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 Stanton

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Logic Lose
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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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
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Advantage Equality Government People Protection
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Conscience Desire Love Respect
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Complete Smooth Surface
Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Men Rule Tree
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
[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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Home Mother Present Role Women
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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Election History Nation Oneself Ourselves Reading
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Development Inspirational Sacrifice
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.
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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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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
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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Happiness Human Life Right
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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Government Inspirational Man Nation Safety Women
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

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

Equality Politics Respect
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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Learning Safety Truth