Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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 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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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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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 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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Make the world better.
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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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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.
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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.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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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