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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.

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.
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Condition End Hands Reason Rejoice Road Short Sight
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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God Greatness Man Moral Myself Rare Victory Win
It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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Faith Man Self Love Time Women Women Empowerment
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
Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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Freedom Leaving Talk Women Writing
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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Believe Body Devotion Food God Himself Longing Myself Time Yearning
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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Drink Herself Husband Money Right Women
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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Absolute Body Myself Right Vote
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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Believe Children Family Freedom Home Husband Myself Place Right
We must be true to each other.
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Each Other One Liner True
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Distance Road Short
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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Guilty Mom Myself Open Rob Slave Wild
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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Existence Land One Liner Politics Women
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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Fearless Justice Need Ourselves Result Speak Truth
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
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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Better Greatness Intelligence Literate Majority Moral Right Smart Vote

It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.

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