When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

The essence of justice is mercy.

When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I became a much more ardent citizen and feminist than anyone about me in the intermediate years would have dreamed possible. I had learned that if you wanted to institute any kind of reform, you could get far more attention if you had a vote than if you lacked one.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.