The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?