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.

She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th-century temperance movement. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement Stanton addressed various issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12 1815 – October 26 1902) was an American social activist abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.