The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEIt 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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 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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Make the world better.
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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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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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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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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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