A Stream Cannot Rise Higher Than Its

... 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.

Woman's Cause Is One And Universal.

Nothing Natural Can Be Wholly Unworthy.

Respect For Woman, The Much Lauded Chivalry Of The Middle Ages, Meant What I Fear It Still Means To Some Men In Our Own Day - Respect For The Elect Few Among Whom They Expect To Consort.

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.