“We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.”

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.

For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.