Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
Nellie L. McClungI saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
Nellie L. McClungChildren are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
Nellie L. McClungThe greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.
Nellie L. McClungWar proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!
Nellie L. McClung