Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Resolutions, First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., 19 - 20 July 1848

• Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Self

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.484, tredition

• It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religious, Children, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1993). “The Woman's Bible”, p.22, UPNE

• Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sacrifice, Self, Development

• Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Responsibility, Rights, Soul

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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