If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

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

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

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.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?