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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONNothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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…?
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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