Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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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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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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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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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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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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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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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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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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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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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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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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