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Lucretia Mott Inspirational Quotes (12)

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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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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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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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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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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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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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