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

Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

The best protection any woman can have… is courage.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

When we hold onto our history, we do it at the expense of our destiny…. At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should have happened and live in what’s happening.

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here. I have a history of victory.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

History is supposed to teach us how to deal with the present and future, but it doesn’t do that if we look at it merely as a record of events.”

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.