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 MOTTWe too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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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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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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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 not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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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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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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… 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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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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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.
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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