Occupation: Hall Of Fame Inductee Birth: February 20, 1805 Death: October 26, 1879
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things..
I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours..
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave..
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated..
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….
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….
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,….
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….
I recognize no rights but human rights..
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….
...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 ….
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 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 ….
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….
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be..
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….
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..
I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights..
...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….
Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property ar….
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free..