To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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Make the world better.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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 know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
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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 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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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