. . . 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. |
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. |
I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without. |
It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's Problem, this Voice by a Black Woman of the South will not have been raised in vain. |
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. |
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. |
Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces. |
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. |