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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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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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 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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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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Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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We must be true to each other.
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