Nothing Natural Can Be Wholly Unworthy.

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.

It Is The Curse Of Minorities In This Power-worshipping World That Either From Fear Or From An Uncertain Policy Of Expedience They Distrust Their Own Standards And Hesitate To Give Voice To Their Deeper Convictions, Submitting Supinely To Estimates And Characterizations Of Themselves As Handed Down By A Not Unprejudiced Dominant Majority.

... Religion (ought To Be If It Isn't) A Great Deal More Than Mere Gratification Of The Instinct For Worship Linked With The Straight-teaching Of Irreproachable Credos. Religion Must Be Life Made True; And Life Is Action, Growth, Development--begun Now And Ending Never.

... Women Are More Quiet. They Don't Feel Called To Mount A Barrel And Harangue By The Hour Every Time They Imagine They Have Produced An Idea.

If Women Were Once Permitted To Read Sophocles And Work With Logarithms, Or To Nibble At Any Side Of The Apple Of Knowledge, There Would Be An End Forever To Their Sewing On Buttons And Embroidering Slippers.