This quote encourages women to demand their rights actively, rather than passively requesting privileges. It emphasizes that true progress for women comes from asserting their inherent equality and removing barriers, rather than waiting for others to grant them favors.
Quote by Lucretia Mott: “Let woman go on – not asking favors, but claiming as a right, the removal of all hindrances to her elevation.”
Let woman go on – not asking favors, but claiming as a right, the removal of all hindrances to her elevation.
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In the mid-19th century, women's rights activists were shifting from polite requests to bold demands for equal legal, social, and economic standing.
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American Quaker minister, abolitionist, and women's rights activist who was one of the leading reform voices of the nineteenth century. She helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton and was a founding figure of American feminism.
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