I Hear The Mournful Wail

[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.

Interpreted As It Ought To Be Interpreted, The Constitution Is A Glorious Liberty Document. Read Its Preamble, Consider Its Purposes. Is Slavery Among Them? Is It At The Gateway? Or Is It In The Temple? It Is Neither.

The Thought Of Only Being A Creature Of The Present And The Past Was Troubling. I Longed For A Future Too, With Hope In It. The Desire To Be Free, Awakened My Determination To Act, To Think, And To Speak.

Vainly You Talk About Voting It Down. When You Have Cast Your Millions Of Ballots, You Have Not Reached The Evil. It Has Fastened Its Root Deep Into The Heart Of The Nation, And Nothing But God's Truth And Love Can Cleanse The Land. We Must Change The Moral Sentiment.

Neither We, Nor Any Other People, Will Ever Be Respected Till We Respect Ourselves And We Will Never Respect Ourselves Till We Have The Means To Live Respectfully.