Lucretia Mott
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"Lucretia Coffin Mott" was an United States/American Religious Society of Friends/Quaker, Abolitionism in the United States/abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer.

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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.

Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

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, t.

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

The cause of Peace has had my share of efforts, taking the ultra non-resistance ground - that a Christian cannot consistently uphold, and actively support, a government based on the sword, or whose ultimate resort is to the destroying weapons.