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
Leave women to find their sphere.
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 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.
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.
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
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 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.
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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.
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
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