Lucretia Mott Quotes

• Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

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  Foundation, Privilege, Shakes

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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 at their source.

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  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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• 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 powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

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  Ideas, Justice, Atheism

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• I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

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  Destiny, Long, Spheres

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  In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

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  Husband, Wife, Independence

  "Discourse on Woman".

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• If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

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  Coward, Principles, Should

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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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  Husband, Wife, Theory

  "Discourse onWoman" (1849)

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  Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

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  Truth, Authority

  Lucretia Mott, Beverly Wilson Palmer, Holly Byers Ochoa, Carol Faulkner (2002). “Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott”, p.408, University of Illinois Press

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• 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, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

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  Girl, Teacher, School

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• Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

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  Men, Tyrants

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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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  Blessing, Long, Appreciate

  Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.14

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• 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 not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

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  Christian, Men, Doctrine

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• We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

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  Truth, Authority

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• 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.

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  Rights, Important, Grew Up

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• Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

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  Principles, Life Is, Strive

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• Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

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  Long, Hug, Mind

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• A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

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  Children, Rights, Humans

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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 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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  Encouragement, Justice, Diversity

  Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.19

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• ... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

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  Light, Conviction, Authority

  "Eminent women of the age". Book by James Parton et. al., p. 375, 1868.

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

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  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• 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 the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

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  Wise, Law, Sorrow

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• Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

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  College, Men, States

  Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.19

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• 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 be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

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  Doors, Land, Vision

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• Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

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  Spring, Garden, Soul

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• the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

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  Husband, Men, Law

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