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    We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

    Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
    —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)

    “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)