One Needs Occasionally To Stand Aside From

The Colored Woman Of To-day Occupies, One May Say, A Unique Position In This Country. In A Period Of Itself Transitional And Unsettled, Her Status Seems One Of The Least Ascertainable And Definitive Of All The Forces Which Make For Our Civilization. She Is Confronted By Both A Woman Question And A Race Problem.

... 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.

Bullies Are Always Cowards At Heart And May Be Credited With A Pretty Safe Instinct In Scenting Their Prey.

... Woman's Cause Is The Cause Of The Weak; And When All The Weak Shall Have Received Their Due Consideration, Then Woman Will Have Her "rights," And The Indian Will Have His Rights, And The Negro Will Have His Rights, And All The Strong Will Have Learned At Last To Deal Justly, To Love Mercy, And To Walk Humbly; And Our Fair Land Will Have Been Taught The Secret Of Universal Courtesy Which Is After All Nothing But The Art, The Science, And The Religion Of Regarding One's Neighbor As One's Self, And To Do For Him As We Would, Were Conditions Swapped, That He Do For Us.

Tis Woman's Strongest Vindication For Speaking That The World Needs To Hear Her Voice. It Would Be Subversive Of Every Human Interest That The Cry Of One-half The Human Family Be Stifled. ... The World Has Had To Limp Along With The Wobbling Gait And One-sided Hesitancy Of A Man With One Eye. Suddenly The Bandage Is Removed From The Other Eye And The Whole Body Is Filled With Light. It Sees A Circle Where Before It Saw A Segment. The Darkened Eye Restored, Every Member Rejoices With It.