It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?