Lucretia Mott Quotes

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. - Lucretia Mott

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. - Lucretia Mott

The cause of Peace has had my share of efforts, taking the ultra non-resistance ground - that a Christian cannot consistently uphold, and actively support, a government based on the sword, or whose ultimate resort is to the destroying weapons. - Lucretia Mott

Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life. - Lucretia Mott

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. - Lucretia Mott

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her. - Lucretia Mott

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression. - Lucretia Mott

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