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...what we need is action - action!
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.
The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.
I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.
Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.
I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.
If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.