Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you….

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make eve….

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive,….

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God..

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, an….

What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed….

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. ….

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?.

Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is….

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters..

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position..

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything..

And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home….

Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a ….

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers..

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices..

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority..

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so..

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color..

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death..

Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he w….