Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stantonwas an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 November 1815
CountryUnited States of America
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
All men & women are created equal
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...?
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.