To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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 expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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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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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 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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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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We must be true to each other.
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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 great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
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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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Make the world better.
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