human
I want you to give me a promise, she pleaded, reaching for Anna's hand.
gpt
Promise me you will keep the presidency of the association as long as you are well enough to do the work.
human
But how can I promise that? I can keep it only as long as others wish me to keep it.
gpt
Promise to make them wish you to keep it, Susan urged.
human
Just as I wish you to keep it....
gpt
I do not know anything about what comes to us after this life ends, but ... if I have any conscious knowledge of this world and of what you are doing, I shall not be far away from you; and in times of need I will help you all I can. Who knows? Perhaps I may be able to do more for the Cause after I am gone than while I am here.
human
It will come, but I shall not see it.... It is inevitable. We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half our people than we could keep the Negro forever in bondage. It will not be wrought by the same disrupting forces that freed the slave, but come it will, and I believe within a generation.