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
LUCY STONEThe politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
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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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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman’s heart until she bows down to it no longer.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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 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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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