The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
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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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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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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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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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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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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 expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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