I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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