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Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
- The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
- The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
- The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
- 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 prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
- The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
- The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
- To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
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