Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone
Lucy Stonewas a prominent American 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 maiden name after marriage, as the custom was for women to take their husband's surname...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth13 August 1818
CityWest Brookfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
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.
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
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.
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?
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
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.
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
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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
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.