I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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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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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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