There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

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

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.