I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.