“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.”

Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860; as published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith.

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Suffragist and Women's Rights activist 1815–1902

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