Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was an American abolitionist and suffragist. She was a Quaker minister. She incorporated theories of Quakerism with her social activism.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Let woman then go on - not asking favours, 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 her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

Thomas Carlyle