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.

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 new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

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.