The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Make the world better.
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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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