Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Make the world better.
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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 politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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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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 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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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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