Quotes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton - somelinesforyou

“ With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? ”

- 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

“ Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. ”

- 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

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- 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

“ When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors to shield himself behind the gentle being he has declared to be so dear. ‘The woman thou gavest to be with me, she gave me and I did eat,’ he whines—trying to shield himself at his wife's expense! Again we are amazed that upon such a story men have built up a theory of their superiority! ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ 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; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ 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; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ I shall not grow conservative with age. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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