Cady Stanton

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    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 (1815–1902)

    It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

    So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness—united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)