41 Quotes by Lucretia Mott

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

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

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

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.

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.

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

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

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.

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.