Tag: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The greatest block today in the way of woman’s emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body… is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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There would be more sense in insisting on man’s limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman’s because she can be.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to… be longer quietly submitted to.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton