Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?

I recognize no rights but human rights.

...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.

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

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

I am a mystery to myself.

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.