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Lucy Stone [1818-1893] American

Rank: 101
Activist

Lucy Stone was a prominent American orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree.

Women, Equality, Freedom, Home, Knowledge, Truth

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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.	Truth	101
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.	Freedom, Home	102
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.	Women	103
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.	Knowledge, Women	104
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.		105
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.		106
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.		107
The idea of equal rights was in the air.	Equality	108
Leave women to find their sphere.		109
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.		110
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.		111

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