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What does it mean?
Lucy Stone demands the right to vote above other rights like free love. Women are currently punished without fair trial.
In plain terms
Voting rights matter most while women suffer injustice.
What can you take from it?
Prioritize voting rights over other debates.

Where it applies

  • political debate
  • activism strategy
  • legal reform

Putting it to work

  • focus on voting rights
  • demand legal equality

Questions to consider

  • What is the first right to win?
  • Can we separate issues?

Another view

Other rights are also essential to equality.

More from Lucy Stone

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  3. All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The b…

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