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 STANTONThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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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.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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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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