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We must be true to each other.

Lucy Stone

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?
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Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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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Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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Expectation Life Moments Myself Phase Summer
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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Earn Gratitude Myself Public Right Value Women Worth Young
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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Endurance Principle Victory
We must be true to each other.
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Each Other One Liner True
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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Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
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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God Greatness Man Moral Myself Rare Victory Win
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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Business Disappointment Education Heart Life Marriage Religion Women
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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Expectation Humanity Myself Slave Suffering
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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Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
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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Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave Women
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Healing Knowledge Leaves Nation Tree Women
Leave women to find their sphere.
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Finding Freedom One Liner Women
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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Fearless Justice Need Ourselves Result Speak Truth

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