There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.