I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEThe idea of equal rights was in the air.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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 time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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.
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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 great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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