We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
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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Make the world better.
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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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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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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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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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We must be true to each other.
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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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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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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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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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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 know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
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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.
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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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