I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.

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

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

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

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

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.

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.