Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.