The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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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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 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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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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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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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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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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