To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.
There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause – I wish I could name every one – but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
Better lose me than lose a state.
Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth’s.
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation’s greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
Now, Mr. President, we don’t intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.