Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSo long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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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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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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