I 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 STONEWe must be true to each other.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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 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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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Make the world better.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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