I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

I was very impressed with that that women have come here to say that we're going to fight you, Donald Trump.

When I graduated from high school, this is in Los Angeles, I was very interested in taking a trip to Mexico to see the archeological sites. So three other people and myself drove down there.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.