Government Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11 Government quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s eleven short reflections on governance reveal her relentless push for equality. She frames political structures through the lens of women’s rights, delivering a concise yet powerful call for change.

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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and…

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It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of…

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The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is…

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They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page…

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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,…

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We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of…

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When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the…

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Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of…

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A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise…

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As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid…

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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

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Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her…

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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…

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

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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

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Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that…

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The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned…

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... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a…

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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

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It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…How much more ridiculous…

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Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made…

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