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 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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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Make the world better.
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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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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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But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
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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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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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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