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.
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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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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We must be true to each other.
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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 politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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