It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
LUCRETIA MOTTIt is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
LUCRETIA MOTTChristian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
LUCRETIA MOTTThe legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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 MOTTTruth for authority, not authority for truth.
LUCRETIA MOTTLet our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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 MOTTA child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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 MOTTIf our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
LUCRETIA MOTTThe likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
LUCRETIA MOTTWe too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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 MOTTMan is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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 MOTTIn the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
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