Lucy Stone Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• Make the world better.
• I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
• 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.
• 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…
• Leave women to find their sphere.
• 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…
• A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost
• 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…
• 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,…
• Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
• Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
• Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
• I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
• We must be true to each other.
• In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special…
• The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I…
• If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not…
• Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the…

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