If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's Problem, this Voice by a Black Woman of the South will not have been raised in vain.
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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