Tag: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton