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.
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But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.Lucy Stone
Because I know that I shall suffer, shall I, for this, like Lot's wife, turn back No, mother, if in this hour of the world's need I should refuse to lend my aid, however small it may be, . . . I should forever despise Lucy Stone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
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