Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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