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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.

Lucy Stone

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONE

Deny Live Manager Place Truth
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.
LUCY STONE

Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
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 STONE

Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
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.
LUCY STONE

Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
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.
LUCY STONE

Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave Women
Make the world better.
LUCY STONE

Better One Liner World
A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
LUCY STONE

Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE

Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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?
LUCY STONE

Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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 STONE

Expand Herself Improvement Women World
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
LUCY STONE

Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONE

High Justice Life Noble Public Sentiment Side True
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.
LUCY STONE

Fearless Justice Need Ourselves Result Speak Truth
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.
LUCY STONE

Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
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.
LUCY STONE

Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONE

Distance Road Short

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