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.
LUCRETIA MOTTThe 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.
LUCRETIA MOTTthe Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
LUCRETIA MOTTA child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
LUCRETIA MOTTIt is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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 MOTTIf our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
LUCRETIA MOTTLet our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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.
LUCRETIA MOTTLiberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
LUCRETIA MOTTAny great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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 MOTTTruth for authority, not authority for truth.
LUCRETIA MOTTChristian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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.
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