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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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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.
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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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.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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