Lucretia Mott Quotes

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.

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

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.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

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