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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
writer, actor, women's rights activist, abolitionist
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1815 – 1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism.
All Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
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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.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
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The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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?
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton