Let Our Girls Feel That

Humanity From The First Has Had Its Vultures And Sharks, And Representatives Of The Fraternity Who Prey Upon Mankind May Be Expected No Less In America Than Elsewhere. That This Virulence Breaks Out Most Readily And Commonly Against Colored Persons In This Country, Is Due Of Course To The Fact That They Are, Generally Speaking, Weak And Can Be Imposed Upon With Impunity. Bullies Are Always Cowards At Heart.

Peace Produced By Suppression Is Neither Natural Nor Desirable.

... Woman's Cause Is The Cause Of The Weak; And When All The Weak Shall Have Received Their Due Consideration, Then Woman Will Have Her "rights," And The Indian Will Have His Rights, And The Negro Will Have His Rights, And All The Strong Will Have Learned At Last To Deal Justly, To Love Mercy, And To Walk Humbly; And Our Fair Land Will Have Been Taught The Secret Of Universal Courtesy Which Is After All Nothing But The Art, The Science, And The Religion Of Regarding One's Neighbor As One's Self, And To Do For Him As We Would, Were Conditions Swapped, That He Do For Us.

... The Majority Of Colored Men Do Not Yet Think It Worth While That Women Aspire To Higher Education.... The Three R's, A Littlemusic And A Good Deal Of Dancing, A First Rate Dress-maker And A Bottle Of Magnolia Balm, Are Quite Enough Generally To Render Charming Any Woman Possessed Of Tact And The Capacity For Worshipping Masculinity.

... [a] Girl One Day Flared Out And Told The Principal "the Only Mission Opening Before A Girl In His School Was To Marry One Of Those Candidates [for The Ministry]." He Said He Didn't Know But It Was. And When At Last That Same Girl Announced Her Desire And Intention To Go To College It Was Received With About The Same Incredulity And Dismay As If A Brass Button On One Of Those Candidate's Coats Had Propounded A New Method For Squaring The Circle Or Trisecting The Arc.