"I know you do not make the laws but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of thos…"

"Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as…"

"The time to assert a right is the time when that right is denied."

"I have been suffering for the last two days on account of [my brother] Henry’s boy [slave] having run away, because h…"

"The ground upon which you [abolitionists] stand is holy ground; never—never surrender it. If you surrender it, the ho…"

"But I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will t…"

"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers; Are you willing to enslave your children? You start back with horror and ind…"

"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. T…"

"My mind is composed & I cannot but feel astonished at the total change which has passed over me during the last 6 mon…"

"If the arm of the North had not caused the Bastille of slavery to totter to its foundation, you would not hear those …"