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.
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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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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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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Make the world better.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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