We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONEA wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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 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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Make the world better.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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 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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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 time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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