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

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

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.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

I recognize no rights but human 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.