The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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We must be true to each other.
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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 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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
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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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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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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 politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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