Elizabeth Cady Stanton quotes

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

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?

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

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?

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

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?