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 STANTONGod, 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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 history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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