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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.

Lucy Stone

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
LUCY STONE

Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
LUCY STONE

Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONE

Equality Justice Right Women Empowerment
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONE

Deny Live Manager Place Truth
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE

Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
LUCY STONE

Bill Myself Pay Reason Representation Tax
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 STONE

Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONE

Expectation Life Moments Myself Phase Summer
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONE

Endurance Principle Victory
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.
LUCY STONE

Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
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
LUCY STONE

Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
We must be true to each other.
LUCY STONE

Each Other One Liner True
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.
LUCY STONE

Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
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 STONE

Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE

Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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.
LUCY STONE

Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight

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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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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