93 result(s) for Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes.
"I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them."
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth... we lose our moral compass."
"Men think they are better than women, they are considered better, now they also want to vote. The word liberty, according to their dictionary, means the privilege to impose laws on others, which they now withhold."
"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."
"The point of liberty is that you can think differently from the prevailing orthodoxy."
"Women should not be imprisoned in a cage of false notions."
"Men are prone to make great sacrifices to gratify their desires, and though contrary to their judgment, to believe that they are right."
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"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best."
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
"The moment we begin to exert power, the religious world will rouse itself, and great throes and convulsions will ensue."
"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see that the world is moving."
"I forged the thunderbolts, and Zeus used them."
"The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history."
"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states."
"Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a 'Declaration of Independence,' or the statute right to vote."
"When the true history of the world is written, these women will be honored, and as examples to those who seek to understand."
"He listens well who takes notes."
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of woman's emancipation."
"To the oppressed, and to those who love and desire to aid them, the world is indebted for all it possesses in science, art, and literature."
"The best-kept secret in America today is that the virtues, values and victories of the feminist revolution have already largely been won."
"Women must become revolutionary if they are to find the recognition and rights they deserve."
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"Jerusalem has ever been the haunt of the restless and dissatisfied."
"It is an unwritten law in America that the best authority on the topic of woman suffrage is any man who is opposed to it!"
"So long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be."
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth... freedom is gone."
"A revolution now and then is a good thing."
"To deny political rights to women is to tear the luster from the rose, and to rob the nation of the aroma of its flowers."
"The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new."
"Our 'Pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning."
"A woman is as good as a man, and sometimes better."
"Educate, Agitate, Organize."
"The point is not that all speak with the same voice, but that they get to choose for themselves what voice they use."
"The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles..."
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"Ye lords of creation, who think you are the crème de la crème of the whole concern..."
"The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God."
"Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another."
"The masculine element is everywhere thrusting back the feminine."
"The prejudice which exists in the most enlightened people..."
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth... then we are traitors to ourselves."
"I forged the thunderbolts, and he fired them."
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman."
"Every man... carries, within himself, by nature's law, a chain of thought and sympathy, which may conduct him to look desiringly toward a given object."
"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped."
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth, that is when we need to examine the basis of our conscience."
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
"Resist this war on our liberties. We must continue to fight."
"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
"In a very patriarchal culture, you could get women to make a statement just by reading."
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
"Our 'Declaration of Rights' demands nothing that is not in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution on which our institutions are founded."
"Revolution now! Woman would be greatly improved by it."
"The woman is uniformly sacrificed... it is a bitter full to swallow that none are so abundantly enslaved as the proud American women."
"Women need no protection that men do not need."
"Man's degradation is at the same time... intimately connected to woman's emancipation."
"Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we can never truly be satisfied with anyone until we find our perfect complement."
"Confidence is the fulcrum of success in politics as in everything else."
"Every man knows that he is a sinner, and every man knows that he needs to be saved."
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."
"His expertise in folding napkins makes a man eligible to rule the world."
"When we consider the rights of man, we must fully consider the rights of woman."
"The extended right to vote will bring a new horizon for the next generation."
"Many improvements are possible in the government of the world, if we first reform ourselves."
"In a word, she stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. She stands for a broader, richer, fuller life."
"Manhood suffrage, a mere abstraction, an unreality, when it means no more than the right to vote."
"All that I ask at life is that it will love me as much as I love it."
"The best protection any woman can haveis courage."
"When man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a b**ch."
"In marrying, a man has to go through a marriage ceremony, but he doesn't have to go through the real ceremony; marriage ceremony is like the unheading of a book; marriage like owning a book."
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
"As a stone, when struck with a rod, flings a multitude of drops of water in all directions; so a man, prompted by passion, scatters his wisdom abroad, and is far from the way."
"The best protection any woman can have is courage."
"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
"I forged the thunderbolts and bolted the doors of heaven."
"The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty."
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."
"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
"The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history."
"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."
"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."
"To disregard such labor is to Teutonize the American mind."
"There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within himself, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea. "
"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."
"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."
"Confidence, as we all know, is a plant of slow growth."
"In battling unbelief we have everything to lose and nothing to gain - not even the gratitude of those who have been rescued from destruction."
"Civil liberty is the air of my nostrils."
"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes."
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