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Quotes by Lucretia Mott

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The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.
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Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes.
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There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.
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Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
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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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Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
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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.
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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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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ’twixt compassion and oppression.
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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