It is time we gave man faith in woman — and, still more, woman faith in herself.
LUCY STONEThe idea of equal rights was in the air.
More Lucy Stone Quotes
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We must be true to each other.
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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We 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.
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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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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
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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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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment — never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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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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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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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 think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
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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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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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The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
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