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 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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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