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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe 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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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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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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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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