Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“The natural rights of the members of the human family are of the same sacred character, one as sacred as another.”

“The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.”

“If we would find God, we must look for Him in the human soul.”

“Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.”

“To be noble is to be useful to mankind.”

“A woman is a person who makes choices.”

“Woman must have seats at the council board of the nation, and she will have them when she is ready for them.”

“All worth is in labor.”

“Every child is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.”

“The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.”

“We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.”

“Work, and still more work, is the only way to pluck the sweets of success.”

“The logical sequence of all this was that I must get a masculine education.”

“There is no limit to the good a person can do.”

“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”

“Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.”