"I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman."

"The old anti-slavery school says, 'Wait until the Negro is safe, and then we will attend to the women.' But we say, 'No, we will not wait for the Negro, nor for anyone else.'"

"There can be no true democracy until women are enfranchised."

"Failure is impossible."

"It is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican govern…"