Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONEEvery new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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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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We must be true to each other.
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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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Make the world better.
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If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
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