Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.