The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

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.