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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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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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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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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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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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