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
Lucy Stone quotes about
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.
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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.
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.
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
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
Leave women to find their sphere.
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.
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.
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.
We must be true to each other.
It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.