I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
LUCY STONEI believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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 STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONETo make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONEI return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
LUCY STONEI expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
LUCY STONEA wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONEThe road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEIf 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.
LUCY STONEI was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEBut 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
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 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
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 STONEWe must be true to each other.
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