Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes & Sayings

“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 best protection any woman can have... is courage.”

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

“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?”

“Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.”

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

“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.”

“The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.”

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