Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Women's equality Equality Feminism Declaration of Independence

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Speech

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English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Gender relations Men and women Oppression of women

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Letter

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English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Susan B. Anthony. 14 June 1860.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion that has breathed upon this earth, has degraded woman. There is not one that has not always made her subject to man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Oppression of women Religion

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Speech

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English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Speech in Washington, DC. Seventeeth Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Assoociation. Jan. 1885, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880-1887. Vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Personal responsibility

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "The Solitude of Self." Congress meeting. 18 Jan. 1892, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Solitude of Self. Paris Press, 2000.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Oppression of women Gender relations Men and women

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Declaration of Sentiments (Speech)

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.