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Inspiration September 29, 2017
"If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?"
Without Lucretia Mott, women’s rights wouldn’t have progressed as much as it has today.
Abolitionist Lucretia Mott first met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the lobby of the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. They traveled to the convention with their husbands, but weren’t allowed in because they were women. This forced Mott and Stanton to agree to organize a convention for women’s rights.
In 1848, the two women worked to send out an announcement for the conference in Seneca Falls.
The Seneca Falls Convention started the women’s rights movement. Her efforts inspired the progress women have made in society and the rights we’re afforded today.
So, we compiled a list of famous Lucretia Mott quotes to inspire you to keep fighting for your rights and the equality of all.
“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.”
“Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.”
“If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?”
“Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.”
“I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.”
“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.”
“Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.”
Lucretia Mott sparked a movement that would forever change the lives of women. She reminds us we can’t expect anyone else to stand for us if we don’t speak up for ourselves.
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