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

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.

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.

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.

Even love becomes a cause of hatred, if stars are not in favour of a man.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.