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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

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
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Toward
Mankind
Woman
History
Usurpations
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Usurpation
Men
Injuries
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I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect of credit in the market place of recompense in the world of work of a voice among those who make and administer the law a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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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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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.
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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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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 in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
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When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*
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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
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The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.
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Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
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