Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes

United States, Minister
May 20, 1825 – November, 5, 1921.

Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public speaker on the paramount issues of her time, and distinguished herself from her contemporaries with her use of religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- See
- Thinker
- Convictions

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Woman
- Right
- Granted
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Slavery
- Aristocratic
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Feeling
- Brain
- Thought
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Work
- Rest
- Salvation
One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- World
- Think
- Act

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Law
- Grab
- Infancy
If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Family
- Nature
- Justice