Elizabeth Cady Stanton PORTRAYED BY KIM HANLEY
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the women’s rights and suffrage movements.
Change does not necessarily occur easily within civilization and in the elusive effort to achieve equity for all, there are always those who would resist amending their personal status quo. Elizabeth Cady Stanton shows us that reforms which would improve human condition overall must be nurtured and fought for. A visit with Mrs. Cady Stanton is a visit with an inspirational dynamo! She will encourage her guests to arm themselves with information, law, precedent, and energy in order to carry on the fight for Equality.
From an early age, Elizabeth Cady realized that men held unfair advantages in just about every facet of life: Education, occupation, legislation, property ownership, even in clothing style - and she was determined that she would embrace and speak out for reform. In 1848 Stanton was one of the chief organizers of the first United States Woman’s Rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Her “Declaration of Sentiments” stated the understanding that “…all men and women are created equal…” and the Convention adopt a resolution for the necessity of Woman Suffrage – The Vote! Soon after the 1848 Convention, Susan B. Anthony would join forces with Stanton and the two would spend the rest of the century tirelessly speaking, writing, petitioning, and fighting for women’s rights in the United States.
“To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting off the hands. To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect, of credit in the market place, of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.” ECS — “Solitude of Self”
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