... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.