Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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