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.
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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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 must be true to each other.
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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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.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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