Lucretia Mott Quotes

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• The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned…
• I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral…
• Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let…
• We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
• Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
• A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
• In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
• Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit…
• Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers,…
• The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
• If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
• Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
• It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should…
• I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
• Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
• The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
• Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
• It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
• Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more…
• ... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for…

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