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.
LUCY STONE
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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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