The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEThe politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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