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There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
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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There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.
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Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
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American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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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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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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... 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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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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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.
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