The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.