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?

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.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

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

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

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.

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

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

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

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

Make the world better.

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

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.

We must be true to each other.

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.

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.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

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

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

Leave women to find their sphere.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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

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

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

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

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

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

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

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

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.

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.