Leave women to find their sphere.
LUCY STONEThe road before us is shorter than the road behind.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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We must be true to each other.
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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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