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
LUCY STONEIn 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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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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Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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 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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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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