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Lucy Stone Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The road before us is shorter than the road behind Picture Quote #1

Leave women to find their sphere Picture Quote #1

The idea of equal rights was in the air Picture Quote #1

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I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power Picture Quote #1

Make the world better Picture Quote #1

We must be true to each other Picture Quote #1

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle Picture Quote #1

The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment Picture Quote #1

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations Picture Quote #1

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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 soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere Picture Quote #1

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) The road before us is shorter than the road behind (Lucy Stone Quotes) Leave women to find their sphere (Lucy Stone Quotes) The idea of equal rights was in the air (Lucy Stone Quotes) I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power (Lucy Stone Quotes) Make the world better (Lucy Stone Quotes) We must be true to each other (Lucy Stone Quotes) Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle (Lucy Stone Quotes) The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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? (Lucy Stone Quotes) I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment (Lucy Stone Quotes) Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation? (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere (Lucy Stone Quotes) To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Lucy Stone Quotes)