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

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.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

Duty is ours and events are God's.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.