No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.