Maria W. Stewart Quotes

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Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such.... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?'

Maria W. Stewart
Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

Maria W. Stewart
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

Maria W. Stewart
What if I am a woman; is not the God of ancient times the God of these modern days? Did he not raise up Deborah, to be a mother, and a judge in Israel? Did not Queen Esther save the lives of the Jews? And Mary Magdalene first declare the resurrection of Christ from the dead?

Maria W. Stewart
Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die if you make the attempt; and we shall certainly die if you do not.

Maria W. Stewart
Shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

Maria W. Stewart
Why sit here and die? If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die. If we sit here, we shall die. Come let us plead our case before the whites: if they save us alive, we shall live—and if they kill us, we shall but die.

Maria W. Stewart
O woman, woman! Your example is powerful, your influence great; it extends over your husbands, and your children, and throughout the circle of your acquaintance.

Maria W. Stewart
African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.

Maria W. Stewart
Oh, America, America, foul and indelible is thy stain! Dark and dismal is the cloud that hangs over thee, for thy cruel wrongs and injuries to the fallen sons of Africa.

Maria W. Stewart
It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

Maria W. Stewart
Ingratitude is one of the worst passions that reigns in the human breast; it is this that cuts the tender fibers of the soul.

Maria W. Stewart
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found - although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?

Maria W. Stewart