I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONEI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONEA wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
LUCY STONEChristianity … 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.
LUCY STONELeave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEI 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 STONEIf 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.
LUCY STONEIt 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
LUCY STONEEvery new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONEI was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEThe politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
LUCY STONEI 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 ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONEI 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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