Quotes by Lucretia Mott - Page 1

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Truth
Authority
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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Coward
Principles
Should
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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Children
Humans
Rights
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Truth
Authority
Authorities
Bind
Too
Often
Rather
Than
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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Jesus
Bears
Essentials
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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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Men
Tyrants
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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Men
Husband
Law
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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Christian
Christianity
Good Christian
Subjected
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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Foundation
Privilege
Shakes
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Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Our Lives
Principles
Convictions
Accordance
Carry
Striving
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Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Life Is
Principles
Strive
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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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Husband
Theory
Wife
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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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Appreciate
Blessing
Long
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The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.
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Jesus
Distinction
Equal
Given
Mount
Precepts
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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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Destiny
Long
Spheres
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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.
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Grew Up
Important
Rights
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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Christian
Compassion
Heart
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In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
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Independence
Husband
Wife
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There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.
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Society
Greater
Importance
Position
Man Woman Nothing
Society Man Woman
True
Woman
Greater Importance
Large
Well
Proper
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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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Authority
Conviction
Light
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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.
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Great
Degradation
Source
Virtuous
Life Great World
Because
Very
Seen
Woman
Nation
Poisoned
Truly
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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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Inspiring
Feminist
Justice
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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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Claims
Scripture
Sex
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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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Garden
Soul
Spring
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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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Men
College
States
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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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Atheism
Ideas
Justice
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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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Wise
Law
Sorrow
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Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes.
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Application
Distinction
Satisfied
Theology
Condition
Judge
Authorities
Read
Ecclesiastical
Resting
Scriptures
Sexes
Text
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I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.
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War
Believe
Effort
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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.
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Education
Girl
Learning
Teacher
Distinction
Half
Injustice
School
Men Women Learning
Education Men Women
Boy
Teachers
Apparent
Became
Charge
Education Women Men
Received
Services
While
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Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.
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Hug
Long
Mind
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Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.
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Encouragement
Asking
Diversity
Justice
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.
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Men
Christian
Doctrine
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Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.
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Doors
Land
Vision
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There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.
Lucretia Mott / Activist
Civilization
Lying
Organized Mind
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