Elizabeth Cady Stanton Short Quotes

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But so long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

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The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

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They had souls large enough to feel the wrongs of others.

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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

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Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

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No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims...

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Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

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It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

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The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman.

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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.

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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

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Mothers of the race, the most important actors in the grand drama of human progress.

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In a word, I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

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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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Chauncy Burr... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

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Besides the obstinacy of the nurse, I had the ignorance of the physicians to contend with.

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There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

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The virtue of patriotism is subordinate in most souls to individual and family aggrandizement.

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No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

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