There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about colored women, and if colored men get their rig...hts, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I'm for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the courts women have no rights, no voice; nobody speaks for them. I wish woman to have her voice there among the pettifoggers.... If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keepi...ng up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay.... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve ...each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spel...ling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sometimes told that "Women aint fit to vote. Why, don't you know that a woman had seven devils in her: and do you suppose a w...oman is fit to rule the nation?" Seven devils aint no account; a man had a legion in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votes... as they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's dat got to do with women's rights or niggers' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye ...be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are de cause of de brutality of these poor creeters. For you're de children of those who enslaved dem.... You are ready to hel...p de heathen in foreign lands, but don't care for the heathen right about you. I want you to sign petitions to send to Washington. Dey say there dey will do what de people want. The majority rules. If dey want anything good dey git it. If dey want anything not right dey git it too. You send these petitions, and those men in Congress will have something to spout about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »