Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

#happiest #holiest #idea #lifted #live

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#cannot #contempt #into #law #laws

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

#battles #been #black #champions #class

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

#degradation #found #fully #grand #history

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#equal #hold #men #men and women #self-evident

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#classes #few #fitted #necessity #ordinary

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#individual #individual responsibility #judgment #like #nothing

The best protection any woman can have... is courage. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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