Life Must Be Something More Than Dilettante

A Race Cannot Be Purified From Without.

We Might As Well Expect To Grow Trees From Leaves As Hope To Build Up A Civilization Or A Manhood Without Taking Into Consideration Our Women And The Home Life Made By Them, Which Must Be The Root And Ground Of The Whole Matter. Let Our Girls Feel That We Expect Something More Of Them Than That They Merely Look Pretty And Appear Well In Society. Teach Them That There Is A Race With Special Needs Which They And Only They Can Help; That The World Needs And Is Already Asking For Their Trained, Efficient Forces.

One Of The Most Singular Facts About The Unwritten History Of This Country Is The Consummate Ability With Which Southern Influence, Southern Ideas And Southern Ideals, Have From The Very Beginning Even Up To The Present Day, Dictated To And Domineered Over The Brain And Sinew Of This Nation.

Each Is Under The Most Sacred Obligation Not To Squander The Material Committed To Him, Not To Sap His Strength In Folly And Vice, And To See At The Least That He Delivers A Product Worthy The Labor And Cost Which Have Been Expended On Him.

I Speak For The Colored Women Of The South, Because It Is There That The Millions Of Blacks In This Country Have Watered The Soil With Blood And Tears, And It Is There Too That The Colored Woman Of America Has Made Her Characteristic History And There Her Destiny Is Evolving.