“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”

“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.”

“Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.”

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