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

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

...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.

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

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

I recognize no rights but human rights.

I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.