To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?