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Lucretia Mott
January 3, 1793 - November 11, 1880
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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