Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONELeave women to find their sphere.
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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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 God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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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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The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
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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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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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I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
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