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

Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

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

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.