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.
LUCY STONEWe 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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We must be true to each other.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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 politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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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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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