It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONEI expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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Make the world better.
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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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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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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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