We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
About Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mottwas an American 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 held in London in 1840.
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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.
American suffragist
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
American suffragist
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
American suffragist
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.
American suffragist