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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Activist
Born: Nov 12, 1815
Died: Oct 26, 1902
Cannot Church History Life Woman Women
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
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
Life Truth Speak Fear Light Others Our Hesitate Tell Silent Divine Longer Policy Opinions Souls Motives Begin Us Should Moment Floods Flow
The best protection any woman can have... is courage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Best Woman Courage Protection Any
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
World Conservative See Wipe Come Dew Off Friend Moving Your Spectacles
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lose Logic Human Human Beings Beings Vindictiveness
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Today Bible Woman Law Church Priesthood Way Emancipation Greatest Block Canon
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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Life Education Woman Solitude Opportunities Mind Responsibility Giving Higher Education Own Strongest Higher Individual Individual Life Faculties Development Forces Personal Personal Responsibility Body Full Reason Her
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mom Woman Mother Wife Sacrificed
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Will Ours Must Use Right
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women Men Men And Women Equal Self-Evident Women Are Truths Hold Created
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
History Women Darkest Prolonged Human Human History Page Slavery
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Man Obey Law Will Laws Contempt Make Cannot Serve Bring
I shall not grow conservative with age. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Age Conservative Shall Grow
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Duty Higher Self-Development Self-Sacrifice Than
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
Man Woman Mother Sense Would Would-Be Insisting More He She Because Limitations Than Cannot
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman Increases Exact Proportion Development Discontent Her
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women Church Degree Degrading Contemptuous Regard Teaching Whole Tone Last
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Religion Me Soul Suffering Memory Own Young Christian My Own Superstition Ever Christian Religion
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Class Impossible Wrongs Another Appreciate
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Busy Perhaps Well Always Am Chief Which Reason Why
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women Other Religious More Superstitions Adverse Perpetuate Than Influences Bondage
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thought Horse Study Equal Learn Courageous Learned Boy Chief Greek Manage Done Order Decided Thing
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman Reality Think Degradation More Am Condition Oppressed Present

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