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 STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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 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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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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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