I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.

Anything is possible with Trump.

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

I'd like to direct more operas.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.