A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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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 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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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