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….

... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and….

The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status se….

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation..

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost befo….

... 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..

... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteen….

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity..

A stream cannot rise higher than its source..

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 ….

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope i….

One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas an….

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without..

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs..

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society..

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something b….

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable..

tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of….

No man can prophesy with another's parable..

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God..

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 unnatura….