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.
LUCRETIA MOTTThe 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.
LUCRETIA MOTTWe too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
LUCRETIA MOTTWeep 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 MOTTWomen’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 MOTTI long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
LUCRETIA MOTTMan is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
LUCRETIA MOTTI grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
LUCRETIA MOTTI 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 MOTTIf our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
LUCRETIA MOTTThose 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
LUCRETIA MOTTLiberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
LUCRETIA MOTTThe legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
LUCRETIA 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 MOTTthe Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
LUCRETIA MOTTIn the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
LUCRETIA MOTTI 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.
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