Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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Make the world better.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
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I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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