Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.