Quotes from 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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

We must be true to each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Make the world better.

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.

Leave women to find their sphere.

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

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.

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

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

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.