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Lucy Stone

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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Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
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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Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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Deny Live Manager Place Truth
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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Aware Creature Depend Fact Politician Public Right Sentiment Support True
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.
LUCY STONE

Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
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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Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
Leave women to find their sphere.
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Finding Freedom One Liner Women
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
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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Bill Myself Pay Reason Representation Tax
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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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Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
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Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote
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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Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave Women
We must be true to each other.
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Each Other One Liner True

Leave women to find their sphere.

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