I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
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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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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Make the world better.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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