I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

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

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

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.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.