"Truth for authority, not authority for truth." — Lucretia Mott
"Truth for authority, not authority for truth."
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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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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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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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I cannot stand authority.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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