Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

About Elizabeth Cady Stanton:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.
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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

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameElizabeth Cady Stanton
  • DescriptionSuffragist and Women's Rights activist
  • BornNovember 12, 1815
  • DiedOctober 26, 1902
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Suffrage Activist (female); Women's Rights Activist; Abolitionist
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame