*Ø* Blogmanac November 12, 1815 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist, born on November 12, 1815

I live ...
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.
Poem quoted on the title page of the diary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902), US social reformer and feminist co-founder, with Lucretia Mott, of the women's rights movement; first president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.