Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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Make the world better.
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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 road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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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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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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