The Cause Of Freedom Is

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.

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.

As In An Icicle The Agnostic Abides Alone. The Vital Principle Is Taken Out Of All Endeavor For Improving Himself Or Bettering Hisfellows. All Hope In The Grand Possibilities Of Life Are Blasted.

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