Famous Quotes - Tags - Abolitionist

  • ... it is probable that in a fit of generosity the men of the United States would have... More
  • ... no one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community, can have any idea of... More
  • ... women can never do efficient and general service in hospitals until their dress is prescribed... More
  • ...I believe it is woman’s right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she... More
  • A woman had started a political paper! A woman! Could he believe his eyes? A woman! Instantly he... More
  • Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. More
  • All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing... More
  • Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! More
  • Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age. More
  • Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its... More
  • Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of... More
  • Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women... More
  • Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress... More
  • Home—that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and... More
  • I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. More
  • I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single... More
  • I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to... More
  • I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and... More
  • I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in... More
  • I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory ober... More
  • I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the... More
  • I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights ... More
  • I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away... More
  • If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of... More
  • It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles... More
  • It will open a door through which fools and fanatics will pour in, and make the cause ridiculous. More
  • Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy,... More
  • Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud... More
  • Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical... More
  • None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined... More
  • Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her... More
  • One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. More
  • Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind. More
  • Publicity! publicity! was the persistent demand. To meet the demand, small papers, owned and... More
  • Reverence is the highest quality of man’s nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it... More
  • Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and... More
  • Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. More
  • Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his... More
  • That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil... More
  • That man’s best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature’s infinite perfection,... More
  • The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way... More
  • The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or... More
  • The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. More
  • The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the... More
  • The period of the Visiter was one of great mental activity—a period of hobbies—and it, having... More
  • Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a... More
  • There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a... More
  • Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal... More
  • We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a... More
  • We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any... More
  • We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. More
  • We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. More
  • What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. More
  • What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more... More
  • When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her... More
  • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one... More
  • Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. More

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