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.
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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 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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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