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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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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age: 87 †
Born: 1815
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: October 26
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Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.
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... 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.
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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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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It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.
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Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.
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Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
