No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

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

... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

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.