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

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.