Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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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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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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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.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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