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Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.

But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body.

The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance.

They will presently themselves be compelled to appeal to the law for protection, and those who would use the law as a defense must not deny that use of it to others.

We should hold our differing opinions in mutual respect, and, having submitted them to the arbitrament of the ballot, should accept an adverse judgment with the same respect that we would have demanded of our opponents if the decision had been in our favor.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.

The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraint in dealing with offical misconduct.

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.

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.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Our answer is this: a denial of constitutionally protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us.