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.
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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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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Make the world better.
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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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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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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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The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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