It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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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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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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[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.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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 am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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