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
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.
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.
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .