I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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 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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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[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.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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