Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONEEvery new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
LUCY STONEI expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONEI 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.
LUCY STONEWe 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.
LUCY STONEChristianity … 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 STONEIf, 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?
LUCY STONEI 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
LUCY STONEWe ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONEAll 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.
LUCY STONEToo much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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.
LUCY STONEI was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEWe 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.
LUCY STONE