... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as inde...pendent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pure was thy life; its bloody close Hath placed thee with the sons of light,... Among the noble host of those Who perished in the cause of Right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of... right and wrong in my life--ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told to maintain constitutions because they are constitutions, and what is laid down in those constitutions?... Certain gre...at fundamental ideas of right are common to the world, and ... all laws of man's making which trample on these ideas, are null and void--wrong to obey, right to disobey. The Constitution of the United States recognizes human slavery; and makes the souls of men articles of purchase and of sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all in...tellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is an ...act of force, and not of right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B.--why may not B. snatch the same argument, and prove equal...ly, that he may enslave A?---- You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own. You do not mean color exactly?--You mean the whites are intellectually the superiors of the blacks, and, therefore have the right to enslave them? Take care again. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own. But, say you, it is a question of interest; and, if you can make it your interest, you have the right to enslave another. Very well. And if he can make it his interest, he has the right to enslave you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles of ...right and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measure...s of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tables ... without breaking and mutually destroying them both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »