The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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All men & women are created equal.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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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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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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