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The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Lucy Stone

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 STONE

Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONE

High Justice Life Noble Public Sentiment Side True
Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONE

Freedom Leaving Talk Women Writing
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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Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONE

Equality Justice Right Women Empowerment
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
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
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONE

Deny Live Manager Place Truth
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.
LUCY STONE

Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
LUCY STONE

Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
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
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.
LUCY STONE

Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
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
LUCY STONE

Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
LUCY STONE

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
Make the world better.
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Better One Liner World

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