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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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