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" The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. "
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. "
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" Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. "
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" There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be. "
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" To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to. "
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" The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. "
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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. "
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" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "
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" I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. "
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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. "
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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? "
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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. "
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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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" To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. "
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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. "
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" It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another. "
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" The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. "
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" Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. "
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" The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation. "
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" The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. "
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" The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. "
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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. "
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