elizabeth cady stanton

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

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

“ I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. ”

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

“ They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. ”

“ Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. ”

“ Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. ”

“ The ballot is the scepter of power in the hands of every citizen. Woman can never have an equal chance with man in the struggle of life until she too wields this power. ”

“ Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right. ”

“ Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. ”