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.
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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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 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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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