The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONBecause man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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All men & women are created equal.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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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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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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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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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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