Elizabeth Cady Stanton quotes - page 2

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. One of the chief organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention, she played a crucial role in advocating for women's suffrage and equality. She remains a pioneering voice in the history of women’s rights. Here are 66 of her quotes:

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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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?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[W]hile the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He?"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton