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"Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters."
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"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."


"No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority."


"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."


"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom."


"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death."


"Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters."


"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life."
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