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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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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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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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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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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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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