Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Duty
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Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.
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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
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It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
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