... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.