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Our Republican Ideas Cannot Be Consistently Carried Out While Women Are Excluded From Any Share In The Government. ... Any Class Of Human Beings To Whom A Position Of Perpetual Subordination Is Assigned, However Much They May Be Petted And Flattered, Must Inevitably Be Dwarfed, Morally And Intellectually.

In The First Place, An Unjust Law Exists In This Commonwealth, By Which Marriages Between Persons Of Different Color Is Pronounced Illegal. I Am Perfectly Aware Of The Gross Ridicule To Which I May Subject Myself By Alluding To This Particular; But I Have Lived Too Long, And Observed Too Much, To Be Disturbed By The World's Mockery.

It Is Wonderful How Shy Even Liberal Ministers Generally Are About Trusting People With The Plain Truth Concerning Their Religion. They Want To Veil It In A Supernatural Haze. They Are Very Reluctant To Part With The Old Idea That God Has Given To Jews And Christians A Peculiar Monopoly Of Truth. It Is A Selfish View Of God's Government Of The World, And It Is Time That We Knew Enough To Outgrow It.

I Keep Working Because I Am Quite Sure That No Particle Of Goodness Or Truth Is Ever Really Lost, However Appearances May Be To The Contrary.

None Speak Of The Bravery, The Might, Or The Intellect Of Jesus; But The Devil Is Always Imagined As A Being Of Acute Intellect, Political Cunning, And The Fiercest Courage. These Universal And Instinctive Tendencies Of The Human Mind Reveal Much.