The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

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.

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

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

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

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.

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.