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.
LUCY STONEWe ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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