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.
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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 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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We must be true to each other.
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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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A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
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