There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

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.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

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.