With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink aw...ay, like frost before the rising sun ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities... beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her mind is inferior to that of man, and we know that it requires the strongest of minds to become a good politician.... She has n...ot sufficient stability of character. She would always follow the opinions of her father, brother or husband ... and this might do more hurt than good.... There is no need of it. There are men enough who have nothing else to do who can transact all necessary business.... If permitted to study politics she would understand the art of governing and she might usurp the authority of men and it would be rather revolting to our feelings to see her holding it over the lords of creation.... She is too fastidious. This needs no comment.... If woman should have the control of affairs, we should soon see woman placed in every department of office in the country, thus throwing many of our most distinguished men out of office, and of course out of employment, or they would not do anything else to support themselves, and would soon become pests to security.... she would soon be able to converse intelligently on the subject of politics, and on this subject equal men.... If we should see ladies attending conventions, traveling about the country in great carts drawn by many yoke of oxen, waving their pocket handkerchiefs to assembled multitudes, it would greatly shock our sensibilities.... She was never designed for it. Her eyes were never made to be spoiled in plodding over political trash.... I presume it would be quite as easy to give 40 times 40 reasons why gentlemen should not engage in politics with such fiery zeal that they sometimes do, as it is to give 40 why ladies should not engage in them as well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscr...ibed and handicapped me on account of my race, but had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mister Ward, don't yur blud bile at the thawt that three million and a half of your culled brethren air a clanking their chains in... the South?--Sez I, not a bile! Let 'em clank!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »