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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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