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.

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.

Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?

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.

Duty is ours and events are God's.