When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sink….

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral natu….

...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character….

My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on!go on! Never falter,….

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a ….

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slav….

I recognize no rights but human rights..

Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public wea….

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be..

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly..

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation o….

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property ar….

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are pra….

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privile….

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights..

The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can onl….

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free..

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to….

The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school….

...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Churchor State; and that ….

I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong ….