But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
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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.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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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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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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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, 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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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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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