Lucretia Mott on man
Lucretia Mott23 quotes“Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.”
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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.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott 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.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott 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.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott … 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.’
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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