If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

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

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.

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

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

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

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'