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That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen.

The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.

When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.

The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

The breakfast was eaten in silence, the women humbled with a sense of their helplessness, and the men gratified with a sense of their power.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America

Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.

depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their intimate relationships poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our Nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do

Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.