If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
Josephine St. Pierre RuffinWe are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.
Josephine St. Pierre RuffinAll over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.
Josephine St. Pierre RuffinToo long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin