Lucretia Mott Quotes

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.

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

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

There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

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

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

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

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

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

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.

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

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.