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.
LUCY STONEI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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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.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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