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

Lucretia Mott

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

Lucretia Mott

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

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In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

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Let woman then go on — not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being — let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

Lucretia Mott

The Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

Lucretia Mott

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

Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott

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Born: January 3, 1793

Died: November 11, 1880 (aged 87)

Bio: Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer.

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