There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

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 intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

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.