Leave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEThe road before us is shorter than the road behind.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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Make the world better.
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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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