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

Women belong in the house… and the Senate. – Author Unknown

Category:
Feminism

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. – Lois Wyse

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

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. – Bella Abzug

Category:
Feminism

Random Quotes

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I dont know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with. – King Abdullah II

Category:
Education

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance. – Joseph Mazzini

Category:
Quotations

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Category:
Trust

Rock n Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. Thats what rock n roll should do – take you to a better place. – Meat Loaf

Category:
Music