Lucy Stone Quotes

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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.

  Lucy Stone

  Rights, Law, Justice

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• I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

  Lucy Stone

  Country, Believe, I Believe

  Remark at an anniversary celebration of the Equal Rights Association on May 12, 1869. "History of Woman Suffrage". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., Volume 2, 1882.

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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 to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

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  Numbers, Justice, Fearless

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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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 not be lost

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  Husband, Names, Wife

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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, am I not guilty?

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  Mother, Children, Guilt

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

  Lucy Stone

  Men, Stills

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• The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

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  Progress, Behinds

  "Woman Suffrage", Vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, 1902.

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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 no man questions.

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  Women, Intelligent, Democracy

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• Make the world better.

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  Halloween, World, Spooky

  Lucy Stone, Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, Carol Lasser, Marlene Merrill (1987). “Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93”, p.234, University of Illinois Press

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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 to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

  Lucy Stone

  Gratitude, Women, Thinking

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, digital.library.upenn.edu. 1893.

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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 to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

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  Disappointment, Business, Heart

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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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 life.

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  Truth, Justice, Noble

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

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  Suffering, Taxation, Bills

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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, and its uses, in my absolute right

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  Use, Body, May

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• 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 have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

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  Teacher, Memories, Disappointment

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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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 with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

  Lucy Stone

  Husband, Drunk, Dollars

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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• 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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  Sex, Mean, Humanity

  Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.

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• All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.

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  Taken, Law, Land

  Speech as president of a national convention of the Woman's National Loyal League, May 14, 1863.

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• The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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  Rights, Air, Ideas

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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

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  Powerful, Too Much, Spheres

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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• We must be true to each other.

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  Relationship, Being True

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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 is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

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  Sight, Hands, Gains

  "Woman Suffrage", Vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, 1902.

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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 Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

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  Wall, Clothes, Atheism

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• 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 act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.

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  Law, Practice, Missing

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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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, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Long, Peers

  "History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1882.

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