"If, while I hear the wild shriek of……" — Lucy Stone
"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 guilty?"
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Lucy Stone
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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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I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor…
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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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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
— David Attenborough
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
— Honore de Balzac
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I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time…
— Antonio Banderas
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as…
— Saint Basil
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved…
— Tammy Bruce
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of…
— George W. Bush
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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the…
— Tony Campolo
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