Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Acceptance Fantasy Myself Science
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Literature Myself Regard Woman
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Ourselves Woman
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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Election History Nation Oneself Ourselves Reading
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Ourselves Path Shadow Turn
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Forever Funny Life Young
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Old Progress Thinking Victory
Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Blessing Father Food Heaven Humanity Life Mother Patience Prayer Preparation
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Culture Judgement Oneself Quick Responsibility Service
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Empowerment Greatness Mad Religion Responsibility Spirit Woman
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Friendship Move See World
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Best Courage Inspirational Motivational Protection Woman
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Logic Lose
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Happiness Human Life Right
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Advantage Equality Government People Protection
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Burn Death Fantasy History Magic Victim Woman
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Conscience Desire Love Respect
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Daughter Father Men Right Suffering Worst
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Man Oppression Slave Woman
Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Constitution Death Live Man Survive Togetherness White
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Herself Independent Life Moments Struggle Theory Woman

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