Quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

All men & women are created equal

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

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

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

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

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

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

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

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

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.