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[a] Woman Should Have Every Honorable Motive To Exertion Which Is Enjoyed By Man, To The Full Extent Of Her Capacities And Endowments. The Case Is Too Plain For Argument. Nature Has Given Woman The Same Powers, And Subjected Her To The Same Earth, Breathes The Same Air, Subsists On The Same Food, Physical, Moral, Mental And Spiritual. She Has, Therefore, An Equal Right With Man, In All Efforts To Obtain And Maintain A Perfect Existence.

The American Constitution Is A Written Instrument Full And Complete In Itself. No Court In America, No Congress, No President, Can Add A Single Word Thereto, Or Take A Single Word Threreto. It Is A Great National Enactment Done By The People, And Can Only Be Altered, Amended, Or Added To By The People.

I Was Broken In Body, Soul, And Spirit. My Natural Elasticity Was Crushed, My Intellect Languished, The Disposition To Read Departed, The Cheerful Spark That Lingered About My Eye Died; The Dark Night Of Slavery Closed In Upon Me; And Behold A Man Transformed Into A Brute!

A Great Man, Tender Of Heart, Strong Of Nerve, Boundless Patience And Broadest Sympathy, With No Motive Apart From His Country.

It Was A Glorious Resurrection, From The Tomb Of Slavery, To The Heaven Of Slavery. My Long-crushed Spirit Rose, Cowardice Departed, Bold Defiance Took Its Place; And I Now Resolved That, However Long I Might Remain A Slave In Form, The Day Had Passed Forever When I Could Be A Slave In Fact.