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.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

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

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.