The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONEHenceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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Make the world better.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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