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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. View quote
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. View quote
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. View quote
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. View quote
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. View quote
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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. View quote
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. View quote
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. View quote
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I shall not grow conservative with age. View quote
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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. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. View quote
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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. View quote
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. View quote
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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation. View quote
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. View quote
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I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. View quote
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It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another. View quote
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? View quote
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To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. View quote
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. View quote
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[W]hile the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege. View quote
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In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. View quote
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In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He?" View quote
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