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
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.