Lucretia Mott Quotes

Lucretia Mott — American Activist born on January 03, 1793, died on November 11, 1880

Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer. She helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

Lucretia Mott Quotes

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