Quote by Lucretia Mott: “I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave.”

When you face injustice — whether directed at you personally or at others — quiet submission is not an acceptable response. Mott is connecting her own dignity to the dignity of enslaved people: she saw the struggle against her own oppression and theirs as the same fight.

Mott made this remark in 1849, a year after the Seneca Falls Convention and as the movement to abolish slavery was intensifying. The Fugitive Slave Act would pass the following year, and Mott was increasingly clear-eyed about the fact that moral clarity sometimes required active resistance.

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.