"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."

Lucy Stone Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate
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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, digital.library.upenn.edu. 1893.

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Lucy Stone

Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate

Lucy Stone was a prominent American suffragist and abolitionist, known for her advocacy of women's rights and her role in the women's suffrage movement.

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