"The one word that describes my life is 'agitation'."

"If we would have a true republic, we must have an educated suffrage, a free ballot and a fair count."

"To think that any man can be the father of a woman, and yet deny her the right to vote, is to me an incomprehensible absurdity."

"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."