The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONEWe 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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 road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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