Life Must Be Something More

The Cause Of Freedom Is Not The Cause Of A Race Or A Sect, A Party Or A Class - It Is The Cause Of Humankind, The Very Birthright Of Humanity.

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.

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.

I Speak For The Colored Women Of The South, Because It Is There That The Millions Of Blacks In This Country Have Watered The Soil With Blood And Tears, And It Is There Too That The Colored Woman Of America Has Made Her Characteristic History And There Her Destiny Is Evolving.

Life Must Be Something More Than Dilettante Speculation.