We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEWe have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
LUCY STONEOur victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
LUCY STONEHenceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
LUCY STONEIt 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 was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
LUCY STONEThe politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
LUCY STONEWe must be true to each other.
LUCY STONEI 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
LUCY STONEI think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
LUCY STONEIt is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONENow 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.
LUCY STONEThe great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
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.
LUCY STONEToo much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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.
LUCY STONEMake the world better.
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