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Lucy Stone Biography

Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was known for using her birth name after marriage, the custom at the time being for women to take their husband's surname.

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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

Believe, Gave, God, Know, Time

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

Believe, Country, I Believe, Power, Save

You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. To-day we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.

Cheat, Imprisoned, Jury, Long, Peers, Sex

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

Abolitionist, Speak, Woman, Women

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

Faith, Man, Men, Stills, Time, Woman

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?

Children, Guilt, Mother, Ones, Robbed, Shriek

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

Endure, Principle, Principles, Recreancy, Victory

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.

Atheism, Bible, Clothes, Musty, Wall

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

Bows, Business, Disappointment, Education, Heart, Longer

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

Annoyance, Clothes, Give, Independent, Women

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

Believe, Children, Home, Husband, Pecuniary, Place

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

Moment, Phases, Summer, Trying

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

Ask, Earnings, Equal, Justice, Law, Rights

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.

Acceptance, Improve, Inspirational, Sneer, World

Leave women to find their sphere.

Leave, Sphere, Spheres, Women

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Air, Idea, Ideas, Rights

The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. . . . I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being--every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

Alluded, Deepen, Disappointment, Memories, Seek, Teacher

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

Behinds, Progress, Road, Shorter

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

Birth Place, Lives, Manger, Truth, Years

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

Absolute, Body, Keep, May, Use, Vote

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