270 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Paul, in speaking of equality as the very soul and essence of Christianity, said, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman.

In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.

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.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

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.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.