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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONMy 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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All men & women are created equal.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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