... And In Thinking Of My Life,

Our Destiny Is Largely In Our Hands.

I Ask You...to Adopt The Principles Proclaimed By Yourselves, By Your Revolutionary Fathers, And By The Old Bell In Independence Hall.

No Man Can Put A Chain About The Ankle Of His Fellow Man Without At Last Finding The Other End Fastened About His Own Neck.

[a] Woman Should Have Every Honorable Motive To Exertion Which Is Enjoyed By Man, To The Full Extent Of Her Capacities And Endowments. The Case Is Too Plain For Argument. Nature Has Given Woman The Same Powers, And Subjected Her To The Same Earth, Breathes The Same Air, Subsists On The Same Food, Physical, Moral, Mental And Spiritual. She Has, Therefore, An Equal Right With Man, In All Efforts To Obtain And Maintain A Perfect Existence.

Despite Of It All, The Negro Remains... Cool, Strong, Imperturbable, And Cheerful.