Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.