A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.