We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Don’t drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
The women have leaped from their spheres,
And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,
And are setting the world by the ears!

Selfish men were…trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights