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.
LUCY STONE
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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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 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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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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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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Leave women 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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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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