Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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.
More Lucretia Mott Quotes
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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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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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Weep 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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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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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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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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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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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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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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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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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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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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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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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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