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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.

Lucy Stone

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.
LUCY STONE

Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Air Equality Ideas Right
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.
LUCY STONE

Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
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.
LUCY STONE

Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
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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Husband Identity Lost Myself Name Wife
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Believe Country Influence People Save Woman
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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONE

Abortion Empowerment Myself Support Women
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONE

Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
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
LUCY STONE

Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONE

Healing Knowledge Leaves Nation Tree Women
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 STONE

Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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Aware Creature Depend Fact Politician Public Right Sentiment Support True
We must be true to each other.
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Each Other One Liner True
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.
LUCY STONE

Atheist Bury Clothes Corruption Grave 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

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