I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

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.

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

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.

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