I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.