We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of abroken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the divineeights of human attainments, eulogized and worshiped as a hero or sint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or rminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffsof our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courtsand alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the afl solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a 19th-century American suffragist. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. Read more on Wikipedia →