"The world has never yet seen a truly……" — Lucretia Mott
"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 at their source."
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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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I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose…
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Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation…
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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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More Degradation Quotes
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a…
— Warren Christopher
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the…
— Charles Dickens
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Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.
— Malcolm X
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We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these…
— George S. Patton
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To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding…
— George S. Patton
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be…
— Cesar Chavez
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever…
— Joseph Conrad
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be…
— Sigmund Freud
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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea…
— Albert Camus
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