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.
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 must be true to each other.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Make the world better.
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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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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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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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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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