I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.