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 STONEI believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Make the world better.
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