The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

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

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.

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

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

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

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it