All Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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