|+ home > features > giftpeople > Lucretia Mott| In the United
States Capitol Rotunda, there is a statue of the suffragettes
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Mott
stands in front, tall and determined: a leader from the past who
continues to inspire action. Mott was not one to rest complacent
with her satisfactory family life – she was, in her words,
“called to a more public life of devotion to duty.” With her
strong convictions concerning equality for all humanity, coupled
with her untiring campaigns against slavery and for women’s
rights, she sowed seeds of change in her day. Part of the
suffragettes’ statue remains uncarved, reminding us of the
unfinished work that is now in our hands. “It is time that
Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than
their notions of Christ.” At the historic 1848 Women’s Rights
Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott read aloud a
new revolutionary manifesto. Adapting the works of the American
Declaration of Independence, it