The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONSo long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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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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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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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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