The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONEAll 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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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
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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We must be true to each other.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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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 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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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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