Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONA government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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All men & women are created equal.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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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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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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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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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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