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.
LUCY STONEWe 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.
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 believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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 politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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