Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother."
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"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?"
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"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
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"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."
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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."
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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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"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."
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"The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history."
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
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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."
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"I shall not grow conservative with age."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The best protection any woman can have ... is courage."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone. We may have many friends, love, kindness, sympathy and charity, to smooth our pathway in everyday life, but in the tragedies and triumphs of human experience, each mortal stands alone."
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