Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Service Culture

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Desire, Cripples, Admire

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friday, Destiny, Rights

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Character, Responsibility, Self

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

• Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Law, Authority

  Resolutions, First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., 19 - 20 July 1848

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