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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONTo develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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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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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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