Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

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

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

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.

If I could only live another century!

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!