Woman's Cause Is One And Universal.

The Impulse Of Humanity Toward Social Progress Is Like The Movement In The Currents Of A Great Water System, From Myriad Sources And Under Myriad Circumstances And Conditions, Beating Onward, Ever Onward Toward Its Eternity, The Ocean.

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

I Care Not For The Theoretical Symmetry And Impregnable Logic Of Your Moral Code, I Care Not For The Hoary Respectability And Traditional Mysticisms Of Your Theological Institutions, I Care Not For The Beauty And Solemnity Of Your Rituals And Religious Ceremonies, I Care Not Even For The Reasonableness And Unimpeachable Fairness Of Your Social Ethics,--if It Does Not Turn Out Better, Nobler, Truer, Men And Women,--if It Does Not Add To The World's Stock Of Valuable Souls,--if It Does Not Give Us A Sounder, Healthier, More Reliable Product From This Great Factory Of Men--i Will Have None Of It.

... The Majority Of Colored Men Do Not Yet Think It Worth While That Women Aspire To Higher Education.... The Three R's, A Littlemusic And A Good Deal Of Dancing, A First Rate Dress-maker And A Bottle Of Magnolia Balm, Are Quite Enough Generally To Render Charming Any Woman Possessed Of Tact And The Capacity For Worshipping Masculinity.

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.