“Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.”

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn’t say that my son deserves more money because he’s a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.