The idea of equal rights was in the air.
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
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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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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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We must be true to each other.
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The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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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