To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right
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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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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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 return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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