"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality." ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton Topic(s): Equality More From Elizabeth Cady Stanton "The best protection any woman can have… is courage." "To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes." "The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion." More In Equality "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."― Sam Ewing "But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation’s future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability."― Kevin Rudd "The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."― Robert Bork