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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age: 87 †
Born: 1815
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: October 26
Abolitionist
Activist
Feminist
Suffragist
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Johnstown
New York
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... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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?
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