Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

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.

What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.