Lucretia Mott

“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.”

“I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.”

“Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.”

“If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?”

“Truth for authority, not authority for truth.”

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

“Let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.”

“It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ.”

“The cause of peace has had my share of efforts, and the slave has had my sympathies.”

“My conviction led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'”

“I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.”

“Let us not be discouraged. Let us be renewedly stimulated to our holy work.”

“Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.”

“The denial of our duty to act is a bold denial of our right to act.”