All Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
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