... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.