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

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

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