Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
Source: How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery, speech, 1855, New York.
-- Maria Weston Chapman, (Jul 25 1806-1885), US abolitionist, editor; She was the organiser of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1834.