I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEIn education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
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Make the world better.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
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