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.
LUCY STONEIf 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.
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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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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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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Make the world better.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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 expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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