All Prejudices, Whether Of Race, Sect Or

I Constantly Felt (as I Suppose Many An Ambitious Girl Has Felt) A Thumping From Within Unanswered By Any Beckoning From Without.

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 Great, The Fundamental Need Of Any Nation, Any Race, Is For Heroism, Devotion, Sacrifice; And There Cannot Be Heroism, Devotion, Or Sacrifice In A Primarily Skeptical Spirit.

With Five To Ten Hundred Pure-minded Young Women Threading The Streets Of The Village Every Evening Unattended, Vice Must Slink Away, Like Frost Before The Rising Sun.

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 Home Life Made By Them, Which Must Be The Root And Ground Of The Whole Matter. Let Our Girls Feel That We Expect Something More Of Them Than That They Merely Look Pretty And Appear Well In Society. Teach Them 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.