To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stantonwas an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women’s rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women’s rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments.
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
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.
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It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
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?
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
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.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
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.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
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.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The greatest block today in the way of woman’s emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
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.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
I shall not grow conservative with age.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist