The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.