I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

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

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

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 privileges of a liberal education.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

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

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.

No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.