Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist and abolitionist. She was involved in many women's suffragist movement and edited a militant feminist periodical Revolution. She was president of National Woman Suffrage Association during 1868-70.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The queens in history compare favourably with the kings.

- History of Woman Suffrage

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

- History of Woman Suffrage

• The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

- History of Woman Suffrage

• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

- History of Woman Suffrage

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

- Declaration of Sentiment, First Woman's Rights Convention, 1848

• Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

- The Woman's Bible

Harriet Tubman