Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
LUCRETIA MOTTAny great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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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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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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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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… 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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Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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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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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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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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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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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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