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 STONEThe great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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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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