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
LUCY STONEI 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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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.
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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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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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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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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 idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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Make the world better.
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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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