KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Showing 1-10 of 36 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Any Best Courage Protection Woman

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Created Equal Hold Men Men And Women Self-Evident Truths Women Women Are

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Come Conservative Dew Friend Moving Off See Spectacles Wipe World Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Begin Divine Fear Floods Flow Hesitate Life Light Longer Moment Motives Opinions Others Our Policy Should Silent Souls Speak Tell Truth Us

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Equality History Long Past Struggle The History Of Upward

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Beings Human Human Beings Logic Lose Vindictiveness

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Body Development Education Faculties Forces Full Giving Her Higher Higher Education Individual Life Mind Opportunities Own Personal Personal Responsibility Reason Responsibility Solitude Strongest Woman

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Belong Boy Citizens Foreigners Fully Idiots Ignorant Insulting Longer Ourselves Out Quietly Recognized Rights Silly Submitted Thrust Too While

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Cannot Describe Feels Her Indignation Proud Sex Woman Words

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Topics: Church Degrading Degree Last Regard Teaching Tone Whole Women

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: November 12th, 1815

Died: October 26th, 1902

Links

Find Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Amazon

Related Authors

Abu Bakar Bashir
Eldridge Cleaver
Ira Glasser
Abbie Hoffman
Coretta Scott King
Aung San Suu Kyi
Subcomandante Marcos
John Prendergast
A. Philip Randolph
Harriet Tubman

Popular Authors

Woody Allen Jimmy Buffett Kurt Cobain Rodney Dangerfield Immanuel Kant Yoko Ono Pablo Picasso John Steinbeck

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1947 - Paulo Coelho

1759 - William Wilberforce

1810 - Theodore Parker

1872 - Max Beerbohm

1884 - Earl Derr Biggers

1890 - Duke Kahanamoku

1894 - Jean Rhys

1898 - Malcolm Cowley

1899 - Jorge Luis Borges

1899 - Albert Claude

Birthdays on August 24th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Dad Design Easter Equality Knowledge Religion Veterans Day Wedding