Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mottwas an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer. She helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth3 January 1793
CountryUnited States of America
american-activist great life nation poisoned seen truly virtuous woman
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.
college men states
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.
jesus bears essentials
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
christian heart compassion
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
christian good-christian christianity
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
husband men law
the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
truth authority
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
long hug mind
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.
doors land vision
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.
blessing appreciate long
Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
spring garden soul
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
coward principles should
If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
christian men adherence
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.
children rights humans
A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.