5 Lucy Stone Quotes on Speech

Lucy Stone quotes on speech

19. Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

23. 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.

25. The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

36. I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

42. The Bible says, 'Let your women keep silence.' It is flying in the face of Providence!