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.
LUCY STONEToo much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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 must be true to each other.
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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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 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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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.
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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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