The idea of equal rights was in the air.
More Quotes from Lucy Stone:
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.Lucy Stone
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.
Lucy Stone
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
Lucy Stone
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
Lucy Stone
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
Lucy Stone
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Lucy Stone
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