I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
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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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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We must be true to each other.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Make the world better.
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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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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, 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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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