When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Interpretation
Truth acts as a reliable foundation for our beliefs and actions.
This quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton highlights the importance of truth in our lives. It suggests that embracing and standing firmly on the truth provides a secure and trustworthy foundation from which we can navigate our decisions, relationships, and convictions, ultimately leading to integrity and authenticity in our lives.
In practice
During a speech about integrity in leadership.
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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.
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
The non-doing of any evil,_x000D_ the performance of what's skillful,_x000D_ the cleansing of one's own mind:_x000D_ this is the teaching of the Awakened.
Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.
In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.
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