It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONENow 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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Make the world better.
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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 must be true to each other.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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