Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated!

When all else fails, philosophize.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Skating is in my heart, not my head