There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

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.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

Don't take too much council from your fears.

I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.

I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.