The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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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.
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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
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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.
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