Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mottwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth3 January 1793
CountryUnited States of America
Lucretia Mott quotes about
sex scripture claims
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.
american-activist great life nation poisoned seen truly virtuous woman
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.
war believe effort
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.
jesus bears essentials
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
christian heart compassion
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
christian good-christian christianity
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
lying civilization organized-mind
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.
husband men law
the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
wise law sorrow
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.
light authority quaker
... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'
truth authority
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
long hug mind
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.
men tyrants
Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
doors land vision
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.