The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.