God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON[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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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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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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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