USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Selected Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotations. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” “Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."

Detailed explanation-2: -No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men prefer to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

Detailed explanation-3: -"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Many will identify this as a quote from the Declaration of Independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -I am a disciple of the new philosophy that man’s wants make his rights. I consider my right to property, to suffrage, etc., as natural and inalienable as my right to life and to liberty. Man is above all law. The province of law is simply to protect me in what is mine.

Detailed explanation-5: -Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.