Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONAmong the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and 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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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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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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’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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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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