Quote by Lucretia Mott
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation bec

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. – Lucretia Mott

Other quotes by Lucretia Mott

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. – Lucretia Mott

Category:
Learning
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Feminism
category

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. – Ralph Nader

Category:
Feminism

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
Feminism
[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. – Pat Robertson

Category:
Feminism

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. – Susan B. Anthony

Category:
Feminism

Random Quotes

There has been a change in mens attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion theyre not afraid of it. – Calvin Klein

Category:
Change

I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. – Douglas MacArthur

Category:
Men

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts. – Paul Erlich

Category:
Rules

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Category:
Integrity