Elizabeth Cady Stanton on constitution
Elizabeth Cady Stanton77 quotes“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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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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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?
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton 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.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
William Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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