Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

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Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

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I shall not grow conservative with age.

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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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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

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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 Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

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It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea the solitude of self.

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Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.

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

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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

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

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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.

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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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The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage.

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