The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEWe must be true to each other.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Make the world better.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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 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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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