Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Daughter, Order, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.237, Rutgers University Press

• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Character, Responsibility, Self

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• ... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Past, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.232, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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