"I will not, I must not believe that the all-just, all-merciful, all-good God can be such a Being as I find him there described. He! He! to have created mankind liable to fall - to have laid them in the way of temptation under which...
The decent and loyal people of America, Caught by their own loyalty, fouled, gouged and bled To feed the power-hunger of politicians and make trick fortunes For swindlers and collaborators. Caught by their own loyalty, fouled, gouged and bled To feed the power-hunger of politicians and make trick fortunes For swindlers...
"[I]n this year of Presidential nominations and political campaigns, we announce our determination to support no party, by whatever name called, unless such party shall, in its platform, first emphatically endorse our demand for a recognition of the exact and permanent political equality of all...
"[W]e will put woman suffrage in the Constitution; we will strike the fetters from the wrists of our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters; we will grant them the boon already granted to the black man under the pledge of the declaration that 'all men are...
Persons who have travelled much on the continent are well aware that our neighbours have the art of throwing much more variety and gratification of the palate into the article of subsistence which has been emphatically called the staff of life, than we possess. The...
Woman's Place — In the Fight for a Better World Elizabeth Gurley Flynn New York: New Century Publishers, 1947 HQ1426 F72 1947 Women's Day is celebrated globally on March 8th every year. It's origins, however, are much closer to home than we might expect. Spurred on by labor and...
“We protest against the movement to deprive us of the elective franchise, which we have exercised for over fifteen years. What have we done that we should thus be treated as felons? Our only crime is that we have not voted as our persecutors dictate....
“The most advanced philosophy of the day holds as one of its cardinal tenets that constant reiteration of an idea, whether embodied as fact or dogma, will so influence the mind as to make it a concrete reality for the person holding it, with most...
"I believe that God is honored as much when He tells me to do a thing and I obey, as when He says not to do it, and I obey." An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist...
“A woman might as well turn farmer, and undertake the plowing and ditching herself, because she wants a tulip-bed, as undertake the whole field of politics because the part which relates to her needs fresh seeding down.” -- Mary Abilgail Dodge Woman's Worth and Worthlessness Mary Abigail...