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“In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments

Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848).

“We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Diary of 27 December 1890. Published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences http://books.google.com/books?id=CIsEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270&dq=%22We+are,+as+a+sex,+infinitely+superior+to+men.%22+--&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=%22We%20are%2C%20as%20a%20sex%2C%20infinitely%20superior%20to%20men.%22%20--&f=false By Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch. Harper & brothers, 1922. p 270. GoogleBooks URL accessed 18 September 2009.

“In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He?"”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton buch The Woman's Bible

The Woman's Bible (1898)

“In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charles's time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony (1884)

“In defense of the right to…marry whom we please -- we might quote some of the basic principles of our government [and] suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control…. If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Statement regarding Frederick Douglass' marriage to Helen Pitts. * http://winningthevote.org/FDouglass.html
Western New York Suffragists: Frederick Douglass
Winning the Vote
2000
Rochester Regional Library Council
In defense of the right to...marry whom we please -- we might quote some of the basic principles of our government [and] suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union..

“The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Solitude of Self (1892)

“Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.”

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Susan B. Anthony (1884)

“Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton buch The Woman's Bible

The Woman's Bible (1898)

“Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, [July, 19-20, 1848]. Resolution IX.

“In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton buch The Woman's Bible

The Woman's Bible (1898)

“The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton buch The Woman's Bible

The Woman's Bible (1898)

“For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1896
September
The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible
Free Thought Magazine
Chicago
14
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http://books.google.com/books?id=TfOfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA542&dq=%22for+fifty+years+the+women%22