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We pleaded that whatever was fit to be done at all might with propriety be done by anybody who did it well; that the tools belonged to those who could use them; that the possession of a power presupposed a right to its use. This was urged from city to city, from state to state. Women were encouraged to try new occupations. - Lucy Stone Quotes

We pleaded that whatever was fit to be done at all might with propriety be done by anybody who did it well; that the tools belonged to those who could use them; that the possession of a power presupposed a right to its use. This was urged from city to city, from state to state. Women were encouraged to try new occupations.

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

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

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

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

American Activist

The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public. - Lucy Stone Quotes

The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.

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 Quotes

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

American Activist Identity

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 Quotes

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.

American Activist God

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

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.

American Activist

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 Quotes

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.

American Activist

But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it. - Lucy Stone Quotes

But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.

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

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.

American Activist

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