... 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 irr….

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v.….

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 tear….

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey..

I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms ….

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special….

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

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..

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….

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

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation..

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

No man can prophesy with another's parable..

... 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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….