Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897. European Publishing Company, 1898.
For a related sentiment, see Eleanor Roosevelt’s letter to A. Philip Randolph.
A nonjuror was a cleric of the Church of England or the Episcopal Church of Scotland who refused to take a loyalty oath to William & Mary.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism.
