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?

How long will the heathens rage?

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.