The rights of all are equal: justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

Such things had occasionally been said by some political enthusiast in the olden time, but, for the first time in the history of the world, the representatives…

They say the religion of your fathers is good enough. Why should a father object to your inventing a better plow than he had? They say to me, do you know more …

The Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, and the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people. I…

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit …

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much …

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each ac…