We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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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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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Make the world better.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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 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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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