12 Quotes & Sayings By Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone was the founder of the American Association for the Advancement of Women. She was a powerful political force in her time, and was also a major force in the women's rights movement. In this book she describes her life, from her childhood in Virginia to her leadership in the women's rights movement.

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Our victory is sure to come and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle. Lucy Stone
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Make the world better. Lucy Stone
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I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment. Lucy Stone
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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. Lucy Stone
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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
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The idea of equal rights was in the air. Lucy Stone
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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
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. Lucy Stone
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Leave women to find their sphere. Lucy Stone
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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. Lucy Stone
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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. Lucy Stone