The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONELeave women to find their sphere.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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