Lucretia Mott on conviction
Lucretia Mott23 quotes“Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles”
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott 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 MottLucretia Mott If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott 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.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott 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.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott … 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.’
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott 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
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
Lucretia MottLucretia Mott
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