The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWords cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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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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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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 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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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