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Lucy Stone

"In 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."

Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

Lucy Stone

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“The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.”
“Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that idea. Obviously, people can't survive without air and water, and we rely on plants and animals for food, and plants and animals rely on us to preserve their habitats.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“Whoever said life without love isn't worth living didn't own an iPhone. These things are great.”
“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.”
“The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.”
“You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.”

"In 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."

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