Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.