A Stream Cannot Rise Higher Than Its

... [a] Girl One Day Flared Out And Told The Principal "the Only Mission Opening Before A Girl In His School Was To Marry One Of Those Candidates [for The Ministry]." He Said He Didn't Know But It Was. And When At Last That Same Girl Announced Her Desire And Intention To Go To College It Was Received With About The Same Incredulity And Dismay As If A Brass Button On One Of Those Candidate's Coats Had Propounded A New Method For Squaring The Circle Or Trisecting The Arc.

All Prejudices, Whether Of Race, Sect Or Sex, Class Pride And Caste Distinctions Are The Belittling Inheritance And Badge Of Snobs And Prigs.

... 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.

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 Tears, And It Is There Too That The Colored Woman Of America Has Made Her Characteristic History And There Her Destiny Is Evolving.

The Old, Subjective, Stagnant, Indolent And Wretched Life For Woman Has Gone. She Has As Many Resources As Men, As Many Activities Beckon Her On. As Large Possibilities Swell And Inspire Her Heart.