To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONProgress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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 more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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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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