Famous Quotes - Tags - Abolitionist And Feminist

  • ... all the slaveholding laws violate the fundamental principles of the Constitution of the... More
  • ... instead of being a help meet to man, in the highest, noblest sense of the term, as a... More
  • ... intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties... More
  • ... is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary... More
  • ... so far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of... More
  • ... the virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are... More
  • ... there has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. More
  • ... this nation is rotten at the heart, and ... nothing but the most tremendous blows with the... More
  • ...I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to... More
  • ...I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren... More
  • ...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their... More
  • ...I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be... More
  • ...I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognise. More
  • All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his... More
  • Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have... More
  • At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for... More
  • Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were... More
  • Dost thou ask what I mean by emancipation?... 1. It is “to reject with indignation, the wile... More
  • Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere... More
  • Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing... More
  • Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their... More
  • I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You start back... More
  • I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it... More
  • I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed... More
  • I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from... More
  • If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic circle would be more frequently... More
  • If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and... More
  • It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an... More
  • Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early... More
  • My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am... More
  • Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might... More
  • One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare... More
  • Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted... More
  • Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being... More
  • The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no... More
  • The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants,... More
  • The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage... More
  • The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not... More
  • The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are... More
  • Thus far woman has struggled through life with bandaged eyes, accepting the dogma of her weakness... More
  • We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. More
  • What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who... More
  • When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit,... More
  • Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been... More
  • [Girls] study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical... More

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