31 ordspråk av Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion
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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.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother
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Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
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Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal
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