Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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• Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
• We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
• With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
• To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs…
• To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
• Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no…
• Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds…
• I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If…
• My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I…
• Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly…
• I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the…
• The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was…
• Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that…
• When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank…
• Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the…
• Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft…
• Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are…
• They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of…
• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its…
• All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

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