To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
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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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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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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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We must be true to each other.
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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
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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