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.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the 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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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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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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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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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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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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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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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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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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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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