"Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but……" — Lucretia Mott
"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 her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life."
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Lucretia Mott
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24 Quotes by Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott has 24 quotes on this site.
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very…
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I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose…
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations…
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Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like…
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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and…
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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this…
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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