We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,'… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
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… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . . — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
