Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.
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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
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The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this abortion. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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All men & women are created equal.
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If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.
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When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.