Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

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

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

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.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.