No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.