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

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

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Duty is ours and events are God's.

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

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 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.