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“In Stanton, Mott won a devoted convert. Elizabeth recalled: 'It seemed to me like meeting a being from some larger planet, to find a woman who dared to question the opinions of Popes, Kings, Synods, Parliaments, with the same freedom she would criticize an editorial in the London Times, recognizing no higher authority than the judgment of a pure-minded, educated woman. When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, I felt at once a new-born sense of dignity and freedom; it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves of the earth.”

Feminism Equality Religious Freedom Quakerism Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Book:Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

Source: Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

“Throughout her life, Mott criticized those who represented man-made rules as Divine truth, using religious authority to enforce their private interests and personal opinions.”

Freedom Of Thought Religious Freedom Quakerism Lucretia Mott

Book:Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

Source: Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

“Though it would become fashionable for nineteenth-century feminists in other denominations to drop the promise of obedience in marriage vows, there was no such clause in the Quaker ceremony, because there was no, in Lucretia's words, 'assumed authority or admitted inferiority; no promise of obedience.”

Equality Quakerism Lucretia Mott

Book:Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

Source: Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

“Mott saw anti-slavery, peace, and women's rights as part of the same reform impulse to liberate the individual from the bonds of tradition, custom, and organized religion.”

Abolition Intersectional Feminism Quakerism Lucretia Mott

Book:Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

Source: Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America