I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.