The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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 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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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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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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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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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