Leave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEIf a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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Make the world better.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
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If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
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