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?
LUCY STONEWe must be true to each other.
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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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We must be true to each other.
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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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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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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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