Quotes by Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott

… 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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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

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Rights

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Foundation

Privilege

Shakes

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression

Christian

Compassion

Heart

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.

Grew Up

Important

Rights

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.

Atheism

Ideas

Justice

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Destiny

Long

Spheres

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.

Claims

Scripture

Sex

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.

Believe

Effort

War

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Coward

Principles

Should

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Quotes by Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott

… 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.’

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression

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.

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.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

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.

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.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

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