"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."

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Source : Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.

Lucy Stone

#Sex Quotes #Mean Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“There are evils worse than death,”
“Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”
“Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated”
“We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.”
“I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.”
“The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.”
“You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.”
“I would be heavenly if baby you'd just rescue me now”

Source : Song: I Saw, Album: Beneath These Fireworks, 2003

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