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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?

Lucy Stone

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
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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Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
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
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
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Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women
We must be true to each other.
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Each Other One Liner True
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
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
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
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
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Distance Road Short
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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Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
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
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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Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
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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Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
Make the world better.
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Better One Liner World

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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