Top 19 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

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

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 religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

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

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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

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

The greatest block today in the way of woman’s emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

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

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

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.

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