The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

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

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

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.

I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

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