It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

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.

I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.