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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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Feeling Proud Sex Woman Word
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

History Injury Kind Man Men Woman
I shall not grow conservative with age.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Attitude Growth Myself
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Crime Growth Help Illusion Misery Original Sin Victim Woman
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Freedom Greatness Lesson Protection Suffering Support
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Conscience Desire Love Respect
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Consistency Human Men Try Woman
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Daughter Father Men Right Suffering Worst
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Greatness Woman World
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Home Mother Present Role Women
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman