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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Make the world better.
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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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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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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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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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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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