Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

American - Activist | November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

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The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

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There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

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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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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

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