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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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Make the world better.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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