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.
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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
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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 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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