American - Activist | November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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.
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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
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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?
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The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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