The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the… — 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
