Lucretia Mott Quotes

United States, Activist
January 3, 1793 – November, 11, 1880.

Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was a U.S. Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. In 1848 she was invited by Jane Hunt to a meeting that led to the first meeting about women's rights. Mott helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

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

Lucretia Mott
- Truth
There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.

Lucretia Mott
- True
- Society

Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.

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.

Lucretia Mott
- Life
- World
- Great
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.

Lucretia Mott
- Men
- Women
- School
Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes.

Lucretia Mott
- Judge
- Text
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Lucretia Mott
The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

Lucretia Mott
- Jesus