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Lucy Stone

(1818–1893) Journalist

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Lucy Stone was a journalist, best known for Woman suffrage in New Jersey.

Quick Facts About Lucy Stone

Born: August 13, 1818
Died: October 19, 1893
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Woman suffrage in New Jersey

About Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and campaigned against slavery. Stone was known for using her birth name, after marriage, contrary to the custom of women taking their husband's surname.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Lucy Stone

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is…

Glad

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If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth,…

Abolitionist

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If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk…

Beats

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The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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…

Communication

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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Healing

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Make the world better.

Funny

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Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

Birth

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It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

Faith

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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

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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…

Bows

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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

Creatures

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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Endure

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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.

Asks

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Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

Powerful

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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…

Believe

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To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of…

Highest

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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end…

Behinds

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The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

Behinds

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We must be true to each other.

Being true

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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…

Atheism

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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…

Democracy

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Leave women to find their sphere.

Spheres

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Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent,…

Annoyance

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You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined,…

Cheat

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