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 StoneI expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
Lucy StoneIn 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 StoneIn 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