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LUCY STONEThe idea of equal rights was in the air.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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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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Now 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.
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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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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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