We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONEBut 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
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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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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Make the world better.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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 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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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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