There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

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Nothing is hopeless that is right.

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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

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