It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
