Stanton

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    The True Republic—Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

    ... women learned one important lesson—namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women’s feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

    We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)