We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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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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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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We must be true to each other.
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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 God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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