Lucretia Mott Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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.

  Lucretia Mott

  Sex, Scripture, Claims

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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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