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LUCY STONEChristianity … 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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We must be true to each other.
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