“Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.”

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.