Top 30 Lucy Stone Quotes (2024 Update)

Lucy Stone Quote: “The idea of equal rights was in the air.”

1. “The idea of equal rights was in the air.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.”

2. “I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right.”

3. “It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”

4. “The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”

5. “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 Quote: “I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.”

6. “I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”

7. “We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.”

8. “I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.”

10. “We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.”

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

Lucy Stone Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.”

15. “Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?”

16. “If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?”

Lucy Stone Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “Make the world better.”

18. “Make the world better.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.”

19. “Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.”

20. “I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “We must be true to each other.”

21. “We must be true to each other.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.”

22. “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 Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.”

24. “The widening of woman’s sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “Leave women to find their sphere.”

25. “Leave women to find their sphere.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken fromus without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”

26. “All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken fromus without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.”

27. “Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “It is time we gave man faith in woman – and, still more, woman faith in herself.”

28. “It is time we gave man faith in woman – and, still more, woman faith in herself.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.”

29. “I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “In Massachusetts, where properly qualified ‘persons’ were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a ‘person,’ and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.”

30. “In Massachusetts, where properly qualified ‘persons’ were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a ‘person,’ and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.”

31. “I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “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.”

32. “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.”

Lucy Stone Quote: “Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.”

33. “Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.”

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