The idea of equal rights was in the air.
LUCY STONELucy Stone Quotes
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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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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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
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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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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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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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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
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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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Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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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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