I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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Make the world better.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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 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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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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