Cornerstones Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

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

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

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

... 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