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"I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
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"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."
"Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?"
"What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it."
"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."
"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."
"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians."
"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for."
"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty."
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