The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONEEvery new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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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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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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 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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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 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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