Quote#Pain
You would not object or think it wrong, for a man to plead the cause…
Quote byLucy Stone · 1818–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to her mother (14 March 1847).
English (original)
You would not object or think it wrong, for a man to plead the cause of the suffering and the outcast; and surely the moral character of the act is not changed because it is done by a woman. 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.
— Lucy Stone
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