A Stream Cannot Rise Higher Than Its

I Care Not For The Theoretical Symmetry And Impregnable Logic Of Your Moral Code, I Care Not For The Hoary Respectability And Traditional Mysticisms Of Your Theological Institutions, I Care Not For The Beauty And Solemnity Of Your Rituals And Religious Ceremonies, I Care Not Even For The Reasonableness And Unimpeachable Fairness Of Your Social Ethics,--if It Does Not Turn Out Better, Nobler, Truer, Men And Women,--if It Does Not Add To The World's Stock Of Valuable Souls,--if It Does Not Give Us A Sounder, Healthier, More Reliable Product From This Great Factory Of Men--i Will Have None Of It.

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 Majority Of Colored Men Do Not Yet Think It Worth While That Women Aspire To Higher Education.... The Three R's, A Littlemusic And A Good Deal Of Dancing, A First Rate Dress-maker And A Bottle Of Magnolia Balm, Are Quite Enough Generally To Render Charming Any Woman Possessed Of Tact And The Capacity For Worshipping Masculinity.

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.

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. Man. Nay, Tis Woman's Strongest Vindication For Speaking That The World Needs To Hear Her Voice.