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• I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Hebrew, Accepting

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• It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Happiness

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

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  Desire, Cripples, Admire

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

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  Together, Done, Violence

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Logic, Humans, Human Beings

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

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  Character, Self, Add

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Service Culture

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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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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  Running, Real, Self

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1974). “The Original Feminist Attack on the Bible: (The Woman's Bible).”, Arno Press

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• They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.

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  Taken, Self, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1902). “History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900”

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• To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Respect, Equality, Self

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.

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  Mother, Struggle, Fighting

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1902). “History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900”

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• The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Birthday, Two Sides, Heyday

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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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  Sex, Men, Wizards

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.156, tredition

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• You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

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  Class, Lasts, Election

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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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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  Ignorance, Justice, Religion

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• When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

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  Atheist, Prayer, Book

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

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  Atheism, Doctrine, Asceticism

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• Religious 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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  Religious, Educational, Long

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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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  Bible, Block, Biblical

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• When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.

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  Thinking, Doubt, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

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  Men, Tree, Littles

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

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  Sex, Proud, Feels

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

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  Motherhood, Facts, Relation

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

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  Truth, Giving, World

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• The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.

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  Fall, Men, Race

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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