Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

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

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.