Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.
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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
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If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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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 talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.
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When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this abortion. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
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Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.