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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

The laws of the United States must be executed.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”

Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect.

My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.

The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

Our answer is this: a denial of constitutionally protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us.

Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.

The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.