LAMBERTVILLE: Lucretia Mott must not be forgotten today!

To the editor:
   I recently read an article, “American history’s first heroine,” by Jamie Stiehm. The article told of Lucretia Mott, a Quaker whose intense struggle to right the many evils of the early through late 1800s: slavery, and the lack of the democratic participation by women, for example, became Ms. Mott’s lifelong ambition.
   These wrongs she tried to undo before our American Civil War. Many of her same concerns on civil and human rights continue to this day. Voting rights and certain civil rights are still in jeopardy; even after all the civil rights turmoil Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to remedy.
   What ultimately came to mind after reading the Stiehm article were ideas such as, when it rains it rains on everybody, the good and the evil, and when the sun shines it shines on everybody, the good and the evil.
   But the most important reality that came to mind was this: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
   Clearly, Lucretia Mott must not be forgotten even today.
Joe Shoemaker
Lambertville