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

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

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

Duty is ours and events are God's.

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.

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.

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