A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
--Lucretia Mott
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
--Lucretia Mott
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
If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
--Lucretia Mott
Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
--Lucretia Mott
Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
--Lucretia Mott
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
--Lucretia Mott
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.
--Lucretia Mott
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
--Lucretia Mott
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