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.
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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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 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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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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