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.
LUCY STONEI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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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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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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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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We must be true to each other.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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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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