"I expect to plead not for the slave……" — Lucy Stone
"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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26 Quotes by Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone has 26 quotes on this site.
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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those…
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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of…
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Make the world better.
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right…
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Leave women to find their sphere.
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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not…
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A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must…
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and…
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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…
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Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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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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More Elevation Quotes
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
— Charles Sumner
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Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation…
— Lucretia Mott
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which…
— David Lloyd George
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit.…
— Laurens van der Post
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of…
— Henry George
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we…
— Vladimir Lenin
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at…
— Saint Colette
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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it…
— Mark Twain
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