So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

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.

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.

Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people

Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.