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Man Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will…
- Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
- The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem…
- 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 for…
- There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than…
- When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man,…
- To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
- Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to…
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