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
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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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In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
husband wife theory
The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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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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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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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