Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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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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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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