“I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!”

“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. ”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The trouble is they let the capitalists make them believe they wouldn't be ladylike.”

“My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.”

“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.”

“I will tell the truth wherever I please.”