Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Self Respect

Quotes about: Self Respect

• To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Respect, Equality, Self

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Doe, Littles

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.73, Courier Corporation

• To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Law, Punishment

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Punishment, Self, Intellectual

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.304, UPNE

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