Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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