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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

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Activist Quotes
Category:
American Activist Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 13, 1818
Date of Death:
October 18, 1893
Nationality:
American
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Select Lucy Stone Quotations:
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

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

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.
Lucy Stone

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

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

Leave women to find their sphere.
Lucy Stone

The idea of equal rights was in the air.
Lucy Stone


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All Lucy Stone Quotations:
A wife should no more take...
But I do believe that a...
Henceforth the leaves of the tree...
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I know not what you believe...
I think, with never-ending gratitude...
If a woman earned a dollar...
Leave women to find their sphere.
Now all we need is to...
The idea of equal rights was...
To make the public sentiment, on...
 

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