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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.

Lucy Stone

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
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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Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
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
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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Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
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
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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Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
LUCY STONE

Equality Justice Right Women Empowerment
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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Account Build Charge Earn Home Interest Men Money Pay Right Sex
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
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
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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Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
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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Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
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
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
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.
LUCY STONE

Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women

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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