Nothing Natural Can Be Wholly Unworthy.

... [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.

Humanity From The First Has Had Its Vultures And Sharks, And Representatives Of The Fraternity Who Prey Upon Mankind May Be Expected No Less In America Than Elsewhere. That This Virulence Breaks Out Most Readily And Commonly Against Colored Persons In This Country, Is Due Of Course To The Fact That They Are, Generally Speaking, Weak And Can Be Imposed Upon With Impunity. Bullies Are Always Cowards At Heart.

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.

... While Our Men Seem Thoroughly Abreast Of The Times On Almost Every Other Subject, When They Strike The Woman Question They Drop Back Into Sixteenth Century Logic. They Leave Nothing To Be Desired Generally In Regard To Gallantry And Chivalry, But They Actually Do Not Seem Sometimes To Have Outgrown That Old Contemporary Of Chivalry--the Idea That Women May Stand On Pedestals Or Live In Doll Houses,... But They Must Not Furrow Their Brows With Thought Or Attempt To Help Men Tug At The Great Questions Of The World.

Peace Produced By Suppression Is Neither Natural Nor Desirable.