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.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- 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

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

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

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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