We must be true to each other.
LUCY STONEWe 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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 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 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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
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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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