"I would rather have my right hand cut off than ask the ballot for the black man and not for woman."

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to se…"

"It is not the ballot that has made women free, but the freedom that has given women the ballot."

"I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman."