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.
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?
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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Make the world better.
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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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