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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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