I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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 must be true to each other.
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Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
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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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