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.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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