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
Lucretia Mott quotes about
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.
husband wife independence
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
privilege foundation shakes
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
husband wife theory
The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
girl teacher school
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.
ideas justice moral
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.
rights important grew
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.
principles life-is strive
Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
destiny long spheres
I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
encouragement justice asking
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.
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?
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.