Lucretia Mott Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Lucretia Mott

  Doors, Land, Vision

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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.

  Lucretia Mott

  College, Men, States

  Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.19

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• 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.

  Lucretia Mott

  War, Believe, Effort

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

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Good Christian, Christianity

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

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Heart, Compassion

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