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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will...

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will...

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him,...

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him,...

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children?...

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children?...

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our...

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our...

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or...

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or...

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South...

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South...

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out...

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out...

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all...

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all...

I am a mystery to myself.

I am a mystery to myself.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because,...

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because,...

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because,...

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because,...

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more...

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more...

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people?...

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people?...

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me...

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me...

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the...

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the...

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice

Extreme law is often extreme injustice

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the...

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the...

Our system is not one of justice, but of law

Our system is not one of justice, but of law