The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONOur ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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The 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.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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