Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

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.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.