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Lucy Stone

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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Expand Herself Improvement Women World
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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Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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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Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave Women
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
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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Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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Deny Live Manager Place Truth
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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Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
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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Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
Leave women to find their sphere.
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Finding Freedom One Liner Women
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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Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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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Fearless Justice Need Ourselves Result Speak Truth
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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Aware Creature Depend Fact Politician Public Right Sentiment Support True
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Endurance Principle Victory
We must be true to each other.
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Each Other One Liner True
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Healing Knowledge Leaves Nation Tree Women

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