Lucretia Mott quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.