The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
LUCRETIA MOTTThe likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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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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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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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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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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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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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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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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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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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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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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… 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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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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