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
LUCY STONEI 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
LUCY STONEWe 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.
LUCY STONENow 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 STONEIf, 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?
LUCY STONEThe great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
LUCY STONEThe politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONEWe must be true to each other.
LUCY STONEI was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEIf 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.
LUCY STONEWe ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONEI 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.
LUCY STONELeave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONEI expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
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