We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial…

- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as…

- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of them warped and cram…

- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin