Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way.

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

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848