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
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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We must be true to each other.
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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 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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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I 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.
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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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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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