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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWe 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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