Quotes About Lucretia Mott

#1. We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect Zgod plants these yearlings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

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#6. It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

Sonia Gandhi

#7. 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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#8. Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

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

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#11. Ladies if A Man is More Invested and Concerned About Your Assets ... He Is A Liability

Mo Stegall

#12. The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

Mason Cooley

#13. It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

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#14. The Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

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#15. 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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#16. Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Not everything has to be immediate.

Sandra Bullock

#23. God is the nest we build together.

Gene Wolfe

#24. Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

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#25. - Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him.
- He is one of the masters you are striving with, is he not? what sort of master is he?
- Did yo' ever see a bulldog? Set a bulldog on hindlegs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#26. In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

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#27. 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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#28. All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

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

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#31. The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

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#32. Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

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#33. 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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#34. The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

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#35. Mirrors are both truth-speakers and liars.

Jodi Meadows

#36. 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.

Lucretia Mott