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.
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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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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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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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