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.
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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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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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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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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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