We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Failure is impossible.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.