How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.