What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIn 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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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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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 history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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