The Best 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

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

After all, God had created all the animals, and only one–mankind–had lost its innocence. — Lucy Cooke

Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere. — Lucy Stone

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

You’d picked me up, so gently, as if I were a leaf you didn’t want to crush. You’d carried me somewhere. And I’d curled into your arms, tiny as a stone. — Lucy Christopher

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

Don’t be so foolish to believe empires are built on stone. They’re on bamboo stilts at best. — Exurb1A

Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness. — Lucy Stone

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

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

We must be true to each other. — Lucy Stone

If looks could kill, she’d be a dead woman. — Leslie Meier

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

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

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

Leave women to find their sphere. — Lucy Stone

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment––never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . . — Lucy Stone

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

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. — 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

It was the eternal conundrum. Time passed too slowly, and then it was over too quickly. Hurry up and die. — Leslie Meier

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 — Alice Stone Blackwell

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

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

Make the world better. — Lucy Stone

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is time we gave man faith in woman––and, still more, woman faith in herself. — Lucy Stone