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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.

Lucy Stone

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
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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Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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Expectation Life Moments Myself Phase Summer
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
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
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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Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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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Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
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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Equality Justice Right Women Empowerment
Leave women to find their sphere.
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Finding Freedom One Liner Women
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.
LUCY STONE

Account Build Charge Earn Home Interest Men Money Pay Right Sex
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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Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
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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Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
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
We must be true to each other.
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Each Other One Liner True
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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Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE

Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment

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 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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