We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

I am always busy which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

The best protection any woman can have, is courage.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions -- requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -- there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

The best protection any woman can have is courage.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty!

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

The best protection any woman can have is courage.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.