"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the right paramount to all others, the right of suffrage."

"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man."

"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.'"

"The only way to get a man to do something is to make him think it was his idea in the first place."

"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. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to se…"