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.

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.

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

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

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as independent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.