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

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

“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!”

“The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.”

“[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.”

“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”

“I will tell the truth wherever I please.”