Woman's Cause Is One And Universal.

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.

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.

Let Woman's Claim Be As Broad In The Concrete As The Abstract. We Take Our Stand On The Solidarity Of Humanity, The Oneness Of Life, And The Unnaturalness And Injustice Of All Special Favoritism, Whether Of Sex, Race, Country, Or Condition. If One Link Of The Chain Is Broken, The Chain Is Broken.

... [a] Girl One Day Flared Out And Told The Principal "the Only Mission Opening Before A Girl In His School Was To Marry One Of Those Candidates [for The Ministry]." He Said He Didn't Know But It Was. And When At Last That Same Girl Announced Her Desire And Intention To Go To College It Was Received With About The Same Incredulity And Dismay As If A Brass Button On One Of Those Candidate's Coats Had Propounded A New Method For Squaring The Circle Or Trisecting The Arc.

Respect For Woman, The Much Lauded Chivalry Of The Middle Ages, Meant What I Fear It Still Means To Some Men In Our Own Day - Respect For The Elect Few Among Whom They Expect To Consort.