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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Elizabeth Cady Stanton quotes about law

American Activist November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902

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Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain... Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is..."
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to..."
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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