Voice of the Day: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By the Web Editors
Jun 5, 2012
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"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 flow no longer in our souls." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in a speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1890

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An image of the November 2026 issue of Sojourners, titled "Face to Face." It features George Lakey on the cover
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