We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.