I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?

Every woman should have a purse of her own.