Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

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.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

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

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

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

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.