To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
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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.Lucy Stone
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.
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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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Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
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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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