"I can but hope, comparing such an audience as this with the handful who met with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in the first Convention, in a little Wesleyan church at Seneca Falls, and seeing Henry Ward Beecher for the first time on our platform, and speaking such noble words for woman, I can but hope that it will not be as our friend Frances D. Gage expressed her fear it would, that the degradation which centuries had created among us, would require centuries to remove;"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
AbolitionistsSocial activistsWomen activists from the United StatesWomen's rights activistsActivists from Massachusetts
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucretia_Mott
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was a Quaker abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer who lived in the USA.
46 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Lucretia Mott →
Related Quotes
"The only cause of the failure of the revolution of 1779, was that it was presented by only one half of the intelligen…"
"It is not Christianity but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her."
"I alluded to my own society making no difference between man and woman in the ministry and the duties of the marriage…"
"When woman shall be properly trained, and her spiritual powers developed, she will find in entering the marriage unio…"
"The Irishwoman now goes about barefoot, the husband with shoes and stockings; — she with her child in her arms, he ca…"
"This then is what we ask for woman, that she may be so prepared for life’s duties, that can be fill her walk in life …"
"Did Elizabeth Fry, of England, neglect her family? No! After rearing her eight or ten children, she went forth and di…"
"We would admit all the difference, that our great and beneficent Creator has made, in the relation of man and woman, …"
"So far from her "ambition leading her to attempt to act the man," she needs all the encouragement she can receive, by…"
"Why should not woman seek to be a reformer? If she is to shrink from being such an iconoclast as shall "break the ima…"