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 STANTONReligious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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