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"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."
"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
"Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest."
"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."
"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted."
"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."
"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."
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