the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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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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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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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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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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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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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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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 likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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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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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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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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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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