I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
LUCY STONEHenceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Make the world better.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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