Lucy Stone Short Quotes

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

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

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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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I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

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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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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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The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

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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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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, personal freedom, and the right to vote

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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.

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The commencement of the last fifty years is about the beginning of that great change and improvement in the condition of women which exceeds all the gains of hundreds of years before.

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The first woman minister, Antoinette Brown, had to meet ridicule and opposition that can hardly be conceived today. Now there are women ministers, east and west, all over the country.

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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 all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

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