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

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.

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.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing.

Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.